29.04.08 Top 20 Meme
April 29, 2008
April 29, 2008
TELEGRAPH: There was a time, less than a generation ago, when family secrets, especially about sex, were kept under wraps, and writers...
Thou shalt not eat in the living roomLA TIMES: Ian Frazier's 'Lamentations of the Father' collects humorous essays by a longtime staff writer of the New Yorker. Read More →
December Man lauded at Canadian Authors Association awardsCBC CA: Montreal playwright Colleen Murphy's The December Man, a harrowing family story centred around the 1989 Montreal massacre of...
A life of her ownTHE AUSTRALIAN: Best-selling biographer Hermione Lee explains why her latest subject, Edith Wharton, was unfairly maligned Read More →
Angola: Ensa Presents Literature CollectionallAFRICA: A literature collection of 120 books by twelve Angolan writers was presented Wednesday in Huambo City by the Angolan National...
01.05.08 Lagnado receives Rohr prize in JerusalemTHE JERUSALEM POST: The second annual award ceremony was hosted by author Joseph Telushkin and welcomed the Rohr family, award winners,...
A benign arbitrator?THE HINDU: In a rare public comment recently, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India, Shahid Malik, told an American interlocutor,...
America’s university of imperialismASIA TIMES ONLINE: Alex Abella, the author of Soldiers of Reason, is a Cuban-American living in...
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Kiwi author holds his own among distinguished guestsNZ HERALD: He may have been reading with some of the world's top writers but Witi Ihimaera held his own at New Zealand's premier literature...
Letters, notes, poems, fatherhood, Evocation is for sure meant to cast another light upon the guerrilla leader. On 21st of March...
The Shadow Factory, by Paul WestIt’s a fascinating, account, both heartbreaking and uplifting, a powerfully moving book. Diane Ackerman Prose maestro, Paul...
Death at Intervals, Jose SaramagoIt was when I realized that it gets more and more difficult to choose a book from the bookstores when the idea of Literary Agenda...
28.04.08 And That’s A WrapCONFESSIONS OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC MIND: The LA Times Festival of Books is done. I have a godawful early wake-up call for my flight back...
THE MILLIONS: I know next to nothing about the translation business, except that it is vital to my reading habits. And so, earlier...
The wartime experience in their own wordsTHE CHICAGO BLOG: [...] May 15, is the official publication date of our paperback edition of Andrew Carroll's Operation Homecoming:...
Press Release: Cohen, Gilfoyle, and Horowitz, The Flash PressTHE CHICAGO BLOG: If you think you've had your fill of malicious gossip, sex as a route to celebrity, and relentless sports and entertainment...