Now The Hell Will Start: An Interview With Brendan Koerner

CRITICAL MASS: Q: It’s tough to describe this story in a sentence. The jacket calls it a story of “murder, love and headhunters.” Did the publisher write that, or did you? A: That actually came from me. I thought that I wouldn't be allowed to write the jacket copy, but my editor actually wanted me to.

The transformation of Harlem

THE CHICAGO BLOG: Derek S. Hyra, author of The New Urban Renewal: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville, was interviewed today on the BBC Radio 4 program Thinking Allowed.

How to be alone, get lost, and find art

THE CHICAGO BLOG: "Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" asked Jack Kerouac. Erin Hogan was going on a solitary tour of the monumental land art of the American West.

Amos Oz – Fima

You can say that Amos Oz is a moralist who can describe tragedy of feelings, history and complicated paradoxes of life. It`s very possible that “Fima” is firstly a unique satire about Israel from late 80s, secondly with schlemiel as its main hero. Schlemiel, this eternal smack who is always spilling out the tea, that we already know from different novels, fits perfectly to this kind of literary games. Fima dreamt up that he`s Israel`s prime minister and has difficulties in finding the right person for the right position in his government. Of course, this problem appears when the other obstacles go away. Those “other” are mostly women who are very attracted by him. He doesn`t know if it`s because they love him or feel sorry for him or maybe because of his poetical past. As a result he tries to make all their wishes and desires come true what causes even bigger problems.

Summarized by Fusinha

Demons At Dusk

HA: Demons At Dusk, a nonfiction book about the Myall Creek Massacre (1838) featured on the First Tuesday Book Club this week. The day before there was an op-ed piece by Graeme Cordiner in The Sydney Morning Herald, 'Let's bury our hearts at Myall Creek'.

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