The Virgin and the Gipsy and Other Stories (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Let's begin today's newsround by taking a look at writers and the Brontës. A few days ago we recalled Paul Auster's admiration for Emily Brontë, and today his own writing is differentiated from Wuthering Heights in the New Statesman . What distinguishes Auster's execution from that of Coleridge in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" or Emily Brontë in Wuthering Heights or Nathaniel...
2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- Edward Craig, back in Michigan after bravely braving San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and living to report his findings here, now unearths for us a surprising nugget of ... well, let him report: * * * * * Michael Blowhard often lamented on this site about the lack of appreciation for the writing skills of popular novelists. These novelists often share...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Press Release from University of Otago DO NOT READ - BANNED ‘ Instruct watch for new novel entitled ‘Butchers Shop’ by Jean Devanny Wellington lady Publishers Duckworth, London, alleged depiction station life New Zealand disgusting indecent communistic’ – Bert (London ). A telegram received from London, 1 March 1926, addressed to Frank David Thomson, the Prime Minister’s...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
I don't review books for the print edition of The Stranger unless I've read the whole thing , from cover to cover (or if I've given up reading the book because it's so bad, but that only happens rarely, and then I'll admit to that in the review of the book). And so that means I'll never be able to review The Vampire Archives for the print edition of The Stranger , but it's still a book you should...
Oh Get A Grip! (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
By Lisabet Sarai I've been publishing books about sex, including sexual activities that many people consider profoundly deviant, for more than ten years. So far, no one has given me any trouble. No jackbooted feet kicking in my door. No placard-waving fanatics protesting in front of my house. It's true that I carefully guard my anonymity, maintaining as strict a separation as I can between my writerly...
Poetry & Poets in Rags (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
as novelist than as a poet, but the Academy of American Poets notes that his poetry was published before his novels or stories. He was extremely devoted to poetry, and was fond of writing about animals. from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday: D.H. Lawrence, Author of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' ~~~~~~~~~~~
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
I arrived at the conclusion that D.H. Lawrence never wrote a line worth remembering when a junior high school English teacher read “The Ship of Death” aloud and with great feeling. I thought it was a joke, a parody of poetic flatulence à la Percy Dovetonsils , but Miss Clymer read it straight: “And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin'” Be honest now: Can...
What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
There are always lists of books purporting to be what one should read. There are also books readers love. A friend of mine sent me along a link that puts them side by side. 1. ULYSSES by James Joyce* 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald* 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce* 4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov* 5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 08/24/2009
Oldest book prize winners named BBC News The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes have been awarded since 1919 Acclaimed novelist Sebastian Barry and leading biographer Michael Holroyd have been named the recipients of Britain's oldest literary prize. The James Tait Black Memorial awards are given to one work of fiction and one work of biography each year. Barry's The Secret Scripture won for fiction,...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Boyd Tonkin: Hard times ahead in the house of fiction The Week In Books - The Independent Friday, 14 August 2009 Left -Gabriel García Márquez: successful gambler on the literary life When the market fails them, where do authors go? We will soon find out. Piquantly, next month every lover of good books and their makers will toast the tercentenary of Samuel Johnson's birth. That proud hack...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
Sonya Chung's first novel, Long for This World , will be released by Scribner in March 2010. She is currently at work on a second novel, Sebastian & Frederick. You can learn more about Sonya and her work at www.sonyachung.com . Here's how it happens: an idea, or a question, or a theme begins to take shape in your mind. There is a tipping point, when it moves from background to foreground. Then:...
Alex Massie (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
Parlour game time! The Literary Canon is an intimidating thing at the best of times but these days it's becoming grotesquely bloated. It could do with losing some weight. So, in that spirit, it's time to think of what books could safely be ditched without causing too much pain or guilt. The Second Pass starts the game by choosing ten books that (they think) your life might be improved by ignoring:...
Jacket Copy (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
The excellent literary website the Second Pass has decided to take a bite out of the canon. Its victims are books by Don Delillo, Charles Dickens, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Jonathan Franzen, D.H. Lawrence, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
The Last Supper A Summer in Italy By Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 239 pages; $25) To leave it all behind and move to Italy: Ever since D.H. Lawrence, this alluring fantasy has inspired many a British and American writer in search of art, beauty and...
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