Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
The National Book Critics Circle announced their Spring Good Reads list, in case you're hard up for reading material: 1. Richard Price, Lush Life 2. Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth 3. Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories *4. Charles Baxter, The Soul Thief *4. Peter Carey, His Illegal Self *4. J. M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year *4. James Collins, Beginner's Greek *4. Brian Hall,...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
One Story blog � Blog Archive � Charles Baxter has something to say about the short story. Interviewer: What's the status of the short story? Baxter: Beats me. There usually has to be some writer in the culture who’s writing stories that get people so excited they want to write them, too. For me, it was Raymond Carver, and to an extent Grace Paley. Then it was Lorrie Moore. A lot of women want to write...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
PG-13 for sexual content and language. 1 hour, 41 minutes. Directed by Paul Weiland; written by Adam Sztykiel, Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont; from the book by Charles Baxter; photography by Tony Pierce-Roberts; starring Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kathleen Quinlan, Sydney Pollack, Busy Philipps, Kevin Sussman, Richmond Arquette, Kadeem Hardison. Opens today at area theaters.
The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Having turned the final page in Charles Baxter's latest novel, I was consumed by a single, solitary question. Huh? This is not an easy review to write because my opinion of Baxter's The Soul Thief has changed almost as abruptly and completely as the perceived identity of the story's protagonist, leaving me feeling both confused and intrigued.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Nathaniel Mason blows a tire 20 years prematurely down the road to his scheduled midlife crisis and he skids across the icy-bleak Buffalo snowscape of author Charles Baxter's novel “The Soul Thief” to a haphazard halt.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
Shifting mirrored views are an apt metaphor for the reality portrayed in Charles Baxter's "The Soul Thief."
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
Chapter One He was insufferable, one of those boy geniuses, all nerve and brain. Before I encountered him in person, I heard the stories. They told me he was aberrant ("abnormal" is too plain an adjective to apply to him), a whiz-kid sage with a wide range of affectations. He was given to public performative thinking. When his college friends lounged in the rathskeller, drinking coffee and debating...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
The protagonist of Charles Baxter’s new book is haunted by a man who appropriates parts of his identity.
Things I'd Rather Be Doing (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
I had the pleasure of speaking with author Charles Baxter this week to discuss his new novel, The Soul Thief. I did so for my company's new endeavor, CorridorBUZZ.com , an online arts & entertainment magazine for the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City area. The piece I wrote previews a reading he will do tonight at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City. Despite the limitless nature of the web, there was plenty from...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
A Thief Undone The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter / Jennifer McKeown...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 02/24/2008
Before Charles Baxter wrote the novels "Feast of Love" and "Saul and Patsy" and before he was awarded the Award of Merit by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he was, by his own admission, anonymous.
Isak (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Ed Champion chats up one of the Midwest's proudest (and increasingly prolific) literary figures on a new Bat Segundo podcast. His most recent novel is The Soul Thief, which begins: "He was insufferable, one of those boy-geniuses, all nerve and...
ThePublishingSpot (Free subscription) | 02/20/2008
Got a 75-word story to tell? I've got a writing contest for you. Over at LitPark, a McSweeney's writer reveals himself as the mysterious author who writes The Education of Oronte Churm . His interview features a short, short writing contest that we all should join : "Write a creative nonfiction story or essay, 75 (seventy-five!) words or less, in which someone reveals something, is unmasked, or comes...
The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
Condition of Mr. Segundo: Vengeful towards literary ransackers. Author: Charles Baxter Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Baxter: I don't mean to interrupt your question, but I think it is very much a process of the last thirty years. It's been the time — the last three decades — when it's been most noticeable. That cities [...]
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 02/15/2008
The following essay by novelist Charles Baxter continues the NBCC's In Retrospect series with a look back at William T. Vollmann's "Europe Central," a finalist for the fiction award in 2005. Of all the keyboard music I care about, there’s one piece I’m particularly addicted to: Dimitri Shostakovich’s Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in A major, from the Op. 87 set of preludes and fugues, as played by Keith...
