Archive for December, 2004
Friday, December 17th, 2004
The Paris Review’s DNA of Literature
Just to follow up on our previous post: the DNA of Literature project has begun. Check out The Paris Review’s interviews from the 1950s.
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Friday, December 17th, 2004
What are you giving for the holidays?
I would be giving everyone Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, but it’s still only available in expensive hardcover. The books I planning to give away this year are varied, but the ones that seem to appear most frequently are Urban Tribes, Don’t Think of an Elephant and Tobias Wolff’s Old School. I’m also recommending [...]
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Friday, December 17th, 2004
Books on, um, Friday
Books bought:
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Jullian Rubenstein
The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor
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Monday, December 6th, 2004
Vendela Vida, Andrew Sean Greer, and ZZ Packer
I attended the City Arts & Lectures event featuring those three local authors. Andrew Sean Greer was absolutely hilarious. Greer, btw, spent the past semester teaching at CUNY’s Hunter campus in New York. Speaking of New York, Packer quoted Vida on the difference between the literary environments in San Francisco and Manhattan: “In New York [...]
