Posts Tagged ‘Books’

Reading

30Oct08

“Hepburn knew that the key to success in life and work rested in cultivating her own personality, and that the key to fully and successfully inhabiting your life meant embracing every contradictory quality you owned. As her star rose, she realized she could do anything she pleased as long as she eluded classification. As she [...]


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Mr. Engdahl, meet John Updike, Thomas Pynchon, et al.

02Oct08

Just read this stunning article on Breitbart discussing some disparaging comments made by the Nobel Academy’s permanent secretary, Horace Engdahl. Apparently, Engdahl doesn’t feel that the U.S. has much to offer in the way of literary contributions. Per the interview with the AP:
“Speaking generally about American literature, however, he said U.S. writers are ‘too sensitive [...]


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Like real fashion, only faux.

09Sep08

This morning as I was settling in at work (read: giving the caffeine a chance to work its way through my bloodstream) I perused GalleyCat for a few minutes. They had this entry on a book called Forgotten Fashion that’s illustrated by “Project Runway” castoff Andrae Gonzalo (I can hear the echoes of Santino saying [...]


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Book review-The Plague of Doves

27Aug08

I don’t think I can do this novel the proper justice it deserves. Louise Erdrich is one of my favorite novelists, forever and ever, amen. But, she’s truly outdone her entire canon of literature with this one. The spooky opening chapter sets the stage for the novel; in 1911 a family is murdered with the [...]


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