Barbara Kingsolver's new novel, I'm sorry to report, confirms that extended fermentation does not guarantee a vintage read I've waited nine years for a new Barbara Kingsolver novel, and the setting for her latest couldn't have appealed to me more. The Lacuna shuttles between the 1930s Mexico of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and the United States just as McCarthyism takes hold. One of my favourite...
From Donna Tartt's The Secret History Pur : that one word contains for me the secret, the bright, terrible clarity of ancient Greek. How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer's landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue? Our shared language is a language of the intricate, the particular, the home of pumpkins and...
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Chip Kidd, renowned book cover designer is currently on a trip to Ireland and this evening he did an interview for Culture Shock , an arts program on one of Ireland's national radio broadcasters, Newstalk, hosted by Fionn Davenport. Chip Kidd is an associate art director at Knopf , an imprint of Random House . He joined the Knopf book design team in 1986, turning out jacket designs at an average of...
Ravens & Chimes Genre: Indie From: New York, United StatesAsher Lack the leader of Ravens and Chimes took time out from recording their new album and rehearsing for their CMJ show on Friday 23rd October at the Mercury Lounge to chew the virtual fat with the Devil. The Devil : Why Ravens & Chimes? What other names did you ponder before deciding on Ravens & Chimes? Asher : We were called...
In My Mailbox is a weekly feature sponsored by The Story Siren . See who else is participating . Mailbox Monday is inspired by Marcia of The Printed Page . Check out came to other peoples mailboxes . I thought I wasn't going to have anything to mention this week because I have pulled the harness tight and didn't buy any books. I deserve those cheers and accolades, so let them flow! LOL Here are the...
Drunky and DOUCHEBAG appear to have settled in for one of their epic Saturday nights of booze, denial and swearing. Since DOUCHEBAG told Drunky they were not having sex anymore DOUCHEBAG's new strategy is to drive a wedge between Drunky and his other friends by telling Drunky's friends that Drunky is a big old queer. Like I said, DOUCHEBAG is an impressive piece of work - a mouth like a loudspeaker,...
it is the season of literary prizes; more specifically, the Nobel and the Booker. The Times has also published this week the titles of the first batch of its ' 60 best books of the past 60 years' survey. Among the top 20 are Harry Potter, Doctor Zhivago and The Time Traveller's Wife, and this set me thinking: what is the difference between a great book and a good book? There are books which have kept...
It’s tough being a legend. Let’s call it the Pietersen problem: whatever you do, however brilliant, no one’s ever that impressed. “You may have scored 90,” they say, “but why wasn’t it 100?” This, as regular readers might imagine, is not a problem I’m regularly faced with (I’ve never made 90, and it may take an attack consisting entirely of...
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each week, to encourage you to get involved in this 'vote for your 5 favourite books of all time in no particular order' thing we're doing, we've asked a behemoth of the book industry to tell us their own top 5. To start us off, the mighty Scott Pack has sent us his list. Scott, for those of you who don't know, is head of the rather innovative publisher The Friday Project , who specialise in turning...
Three news items remind us how little literary life changes from age to age Just as the news from the world of books seems to point inexorably to a cyber-niscient (I just made that up, breaking several etymological principles in the process), digitised future dominated by virtual texts and e-reading, three little items (insignificant in themselves) pop up as a nice reminder that the literary process...
Goodness, what a day! It's absolutely teeming with rain this morning, I'm so glad I got the runner beans and raspberries picked over the weekend as you can't even get out there this morning. As it is, it's my last free day until Sunday as we have our grandaughter coming to stay from tomorrow to Saturday. We're planning a barge trip on the local canal and a visit to the cinema to see Aliens in the Attic....
I'm still only halfway through The Secret History by Donna Tartt (it's very good) so I thought I'd fill the silence with a recent acquisitions post. I still think I must be kidding myself that I haven't bought as many books as usual this year - these new book posts don't seem any less in number and nor have they less books in them it seems to me. Oh well. This House of Sky was recommended in this post...
I reviewed The Magicians by Lev Grossman a couple weeks ago. I was so impressed with the book that I fired off a few questions (via email) to Mr. Grossman. He was more than kind in taking the time to respond. Read below to find out a little more about Lev and The Magicians. Please tell us a little bit about yourself. My name is Lev Grossman. I’m 40. I live in Brooklyn. I have a daughter, Lily,...
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Standing at the Post Office counter, watching the Big Brown Envelope wave goodbye, I often wonder what goes through the agent's (or reader's mind) when he or she opens my submission – do they think it's a big pile of George Dubya Bush, or might it cross their mind that it's the best thing invented since the telly? Picture this: 'Hello, is that Doris Lessing?' 'Yes,' I say to the agent. 'I've...
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