Lovers' Last Go Around (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Mixer Reading and Music Series Wednesday, October 14, 7:00 p.m. FREE with readings by Darin Strauss, Farrah Field, and Maya Pindyck and musical guest, Uninhabitable Mansions with your hosts, Melissa Febos and Rebecca Keith at Cakeshop 152 Ludlow St., bet. Stanton and Rivington F, V to 2nd Ave., F, J, M to Delancey/Essex http://www.myspace.com/mixernyc Danit Brown is the author of Ask for a Convertible...
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
“Seeing Through Masks: What Jonathan Franzen Gets Wrong about Writing the Other” by Darin Strauss. Using the novelists’ secret formula — one part research, three parts empathy — I hope I’ve made my Darlene a credible veteran of the Black experience. But you never know; I’ve been faulted for even trying. (My 2000 book Chang & [...]
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
From left to right: Rich Cohen, Darin Strauss, John Podhoretz, Jonathan Lethem and J.J. Goldberg Of Israel Is Real , Rich Cohen’s “sweeping and impressionistic saga of Zionism,” PopMatters writes that Cohen: ...describes army general and amateur archaeologist Moshe Dayan coming upon the shard of a possible artifact at a ruin near Tel Aviv. Dayan digs until he locates the entrance...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
The website Five Chapters, started in 2006, each week "publishes a five-part story, serial-style, Monday through Friday. It's Charles Dickens for the 21st century. And what's more, [founder Dave Daley] has managed to attract some of the country's hottest writers, including Stewart O'Nan, Arthur Phillips, Curtis Sittenfeld, John Wray, Wells Tower, Julia Glass, Darin Strauss, Jay McInerney and Kate...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page . This week I shopped at the Friends of the Library annual book sale and bought seventeen books for only nine dollars. I love deals like that! I also received one book that was a contest win, and one ARC. Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery - I didn't open this one until I got home. It's in French. I guess I just have one more reason to...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 03/23/2009
6 p.m. French, Pan-Asian resturant, Satsko celebrates "Satsko's Economic stimulus package Monday" with a happy hour and $5 all-you-can-eat Asian Chicken, at 245 Eldridge Street. 6:30 p.m. "A Literary Showdown" features: Jonathan Lethem, Chip Kidd, A.J. Jacobs, Darin Strauss and Susan Jane Gilman, pitting "three teams of five authors, five editors and five agents against one...
Joshuah Bearman (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Because I just found the perfect eigth day gift: (Nod and wink to Darin Strauss, via the Ice House!
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Darin Strauss sings ! And then sings some more ! (Plus solo numbers from Jonathan Coulton .) Glenn Beck said contemporary books for young readers are emasculating , except for the ones his guest Ted Bell writes. Remember that time Simon Spotlight Entertainment announced an embargoed memoir with a 350,000-copy print run that turned out to be from Madonna's brother ? Boy, that was something, wasn't...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
Are authors quietly stacking the deck at Amazon? In the Village Voice , one novelist alleged that writers are abusing customer review features online. Novelist Kevin Baker 's recent profile of fellow novelist Darin Strauss explored some common complaints of writing in the Internet age--showing how Strauss struggled with blog critics during his book tour for More Than It Hurts You . The essay's criticism...
The Blog at 16th and Q (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Big weekend coming up. Bernard-Henri Lévy is sold out, but Elisa Albert (The Book of Dahlia) and Darin Strauss (Best-selling author of Chang & Eng) both have tickets available on Sunday. Mention the blog and you’re entitled to 2-for-1 tickets for both readings. It’s been a busy week, and there are many busy days ahead. The following is [...]
The Blog at 16th and Q (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
He doesn’t do much reading in this interview, but you can appreciate the absurdity of the situation when Darin Strauss somehow ends up as a guest on Craig Ferguson’s Late Late Show. Expect a slightly more literary experience when Darin reads from More Than It Hurts You on Sunday, September 21 at the Hyman S. [...]
MSNBC.com: Newsweek Society (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
1. "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth. This is what made me think I'd try this crazy career. Crude as hell, yet a literary triumph.
The Blog at 16th and Q (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
One of the best parts of my job is being able to read in-advance many of the authors we end up bringing for the Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival. For a four-eyed, lit-geek like myself, sitting on the Metro, reading a book emblazoned with “Advance Uncorrected Proofs: Not For Sale” is as [...]
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, and the newly published More Than It Hurts You. One book on his recent reading list:Time's Arrow, by Martin Amis. I think he's under-rated, famous as he is. He's the best stylist out of the UK since VS Pritchett, I think, and as funny as Nabokov. In the generation of English-language writers
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU, by Darin Strauss. Dutton, 401 pp., $24.95.
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