Smithereens (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Dear Ethan, By now it is almost certain, I will read all of your books. You got me; I’m a fan now. I was introduced to you last year through The Palace Thief. I continued this summer with Carry me across the water, and now I’ve finished the very first collection you published, The Emperor of [...]
Pen On Fire (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Marrie Stone interviews Ethan Canin , author of America America and Nick Baker , author of The Anthologist . Download audio . (Broadcast date: Sep 23, 2009)
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Philip Hensher: The deadliest rivalry lurks in literary festivals Some writers treat them as a brute Darwinian struggle for survival Monday, 31 August 2009, The Independent One of the great advantages of books, it seems to me, is that you can send your thoughts and carefully edited personality right across the world without having to do anything very energetic. So the modern literary festival, agreeable...
Smithereens (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
As I grow older, I become more and more emotional. Or you could see it another way – as I grow older, I read more and more emotional books. When I finished Canin’s novel in the train, I had tears in my eyes. How embarrassing is that? I took me months to sit down and review [...]
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
The author of the bestselling Prep and American Wife recommends a few of her favorite reads, from an Alice Munro classic to two books from emerging writers. "I loved these wise, sad, elegant stories." Emperor of the Airby Ethan Canin Years before...
Things I'd Rather Be Doing (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Ten years ago today, the June 21 & 28, 1999 issue of the New Yorker hit the mailbox (yes, we get it late out here in flyover country). It was the fiction issue, though this one came with a twist: It identified 20 writers who were dubbed "The Future of American Fiction." The list: Sherman Alexie, Donald Antrim, Ethan Canin, Michael Chabon, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Tony Earley, Nathan...
bookeywookey (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
I saw this over at Shelley ’s, and thought it sounded like a great question. “This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.” Bleak House & Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens) - Aside from it's wide-ranging story and amazing comedy, I remember...
Ghost Word (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
It might have been the margaritas, or the fact that Daniel Handler and Stephen Elliot were wandering around the room wearing t-shirts that read “Ethan Fukin Canin,” but Tuesday night’s benefit for Litquake was an evening of good cheer and fascinating discourse on literature. The $55 ticket price meant the room wasn’t too crowded. Spotted mingling at the Broadway Building in...
SFist (Free subscription) | 06/02/2009
Litquake is celebrating their 10th anniversary tonight with a fundraiser called, "Cocktails with Canin." Author Ethan Canin , who is currently promoting the paperback release of his epic novel, America America , which was described by the late John Updike as “a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history,” will be sharing cocktails and conversation...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/28/2009
Author Ethan Canin's life would make for a good bildungsroman - that ever-popular genre of novel about a bright character's coming of age. Born to working-class, artistic parents in the Midwest, Canin arrived in San Francisco in grade school and attended the...
bookeywookey (Free subscription) | 03/15/2009
I was over at Dorothy's place and thought this was a great meme. So, here are 25 writers who have influenced me in no particular order: 1. Herman Hesse 2. J. D. Sallinger 3. Virginia Woolf 4. Anton Chekhov 5. Konstantin Stanislavski 6. Horton Foote 7. Ethan Canin 8. Chaim Potok 9. Paul de Kruif 10. E. M. Forster 11. May Sarton 12. Allan Miller 13. Clifford Odets 14. Steven Johnson 15. Wendy Smith 16....
GreenCine Guru (Free subscription) | 03/06/2009
Reviewer: James van Maanen Rating (out of 5): Beautiful Ohio: **** Choke: **½ Actor Chad Lowe's first full length film as a director (from a screenplay by Ethan Canin, adapting one of his own short stories) is almost shockingly...
this is sippey.typepad.com (Free subscription) | 01/18/2009
An excerpt from Ethan Canin's fantastic new novel.
TV Barn (Free subscription) | 01/13/2009
A longtime reader who lives in Iowa writes me this morning: "It's been driving me nuts the last two seasons to know if Ethan Kanin, the chief of staff on '24,' is named after Ethan Canin, the author and faculty...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 12/08/2008
In a recession, when thrift is contagious, just why must I pay $18 for the Mobipocket store’s edition of America America, complete with the exceedingly unwanted “feature” of DRM? Believe me, I’d rather see Ethan Canin—whose e-book version costs at least $19.51 at the normally less expensive Fictionwise—get royalties. No such luck, however. So [...]
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