SF Signal (Free subscription) | yesterday
[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] An early encounter with Ray Bradbury's "A Sound Of Thunder" led to Anil Menon to both science...
Bostonist (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Sunday, November 8 All day: Harvard Book Store ’s annual frequent buyer sale. Customers who have signed up for a Frequent Buyer Card BEFORE November 8th will be eligible to receive 20% off all purchases of new, used and bargain books, as well as data-based Print on Demand titles and non-book items throughout the store. Monday, November 9 12:00 pm, UMass Boston Campus Center, 3rd Floor, Room...
Another 52 Books (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Discover the literature of a foreign country you are not much familiar with. I plan to see if I can find some English translations of Indian writers while I am in India, because my reading of Indian literature consists of a prose retelling of the stories told in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and a handful of books by Indian women writers who write in English*. When this posts (I am posting this...
The Patient's Doctor (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Medicine In Translation | Psychology Today : "I see the doctor as a translator. For most people, medicine is a foreign country, with its own language, customs, and mores. My patients are immigrants to this country, and many feel very disoriented. My job, as their physician, is to translate this alien world for them, to help them acclimatize and hopefully thrive. Jhumpa Lahiri used a beautiful...
My Machberet (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
If you're in New York City and have time available on Tuesday evening, October 27, you may want to check out this event at Columbia University:"Join Ilan Stavans, editor of The Library of America's new anthology Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, and two contributors, award-winning writers Jhumpa Lahiri and Gary Shteyngart, for an evening of readings and discussion. Open...
hello, typepad (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
She has an uncanny ability to talk about uncertainty in a way that yields revelation—or, rather, to accept uncertainty as a condition of revelation. Describing her path to becoming a writer (she began writing stories around the age of five,...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Martin Schneider writes: Unfortunately, the Annie Proulx event on Saturday morning has been cancelled due to Ms. Proulx being "under the weather." We hope that it's just that and not something more serious. Get better soon! Ticketholders for the Proulx event will receive a refund. The Proulx event has been replaced, with some alacrity, by the following event: In Conversation With Jhumpa...
Racked (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
The Greenlight storefront in August via the store's blog Fort Greene has no shortage of well-known authors—Jhumpa Lahiri, Colson Whitehead—but it hasn't had an...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Next week, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony will throw its first gala hosted by New York media bigwigs Tina Brown and New Yorker editor-in-chief David Remnick . The gala, emceed by Nation columnist Calvin Trillin , will be held at Cipriani on Tuesday night and will also serve as an awards dinner honoring Toni Morrison with a Lifetime Achievement Award and posthumously bestowing the Distinguished Journalism...
Musings of a Bookish Kitty (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
It is after midnight, and, therefore, technically Sunday. I was searching through my TBR collection for a particular book, which, unfortunately, I was unable to find. I am sure it is there, hiding somewhere among the masses. Meanwhile, my oldest cat has crawled under the guest bed for a little nap. This is not odd behavior at all for a cat, and it is probably all the more appealing because the room...
Unstable Euphony (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Community Things Objects Narrative Human Nature Language Rhetoric History Fiction Commodities Consumerism Systems Touching Connection Bill Brown Martin Heidegger Walter Benjamin Jean-Luc Nancy Jonathan Safran Foer Don DeLillo Jhumpa Lahiri Brian McHale Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
ringShout (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Young, Gifted and Black Men: Writer’s Who Rock (In Brooklyn) Posted By The Editors | October 2nd, 2009 | Category: Feature | No Comments » Print This Post By Chinyere Osuala There’s an exclusivity that Park Slope, Brooklyn boasts, that makes it different, makes it stand out. No, it’s not the strollers, or the young married couples, or the yuppie-ness, it is the amount of writers,...
A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
We'll be at McNally Jackson booksellers on Monday, October 5th to hear Jhumpa Lahiri read from The Cost of Living, our new collection of Mavis Gallant's short stories. Edwin Frank, editor of NYRB Classics series, will introduce the evening. Event...
Neocon Blues (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
My first post since the establishment of the “Ferdisphere” comes off as slightly critical. While I agree with much of what Ferdinand has to say about gender and sexual politics, I will have to politely disagree with his take on Jhumpa Lahiri. At Two Blowhards, he writes: No more. Today’s crop of popular novelists, having missed
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Short stories aren't usually my favorite genre. They tend to go by too quickly, so by the time I get involved with the characters and story, it's over and I'm already struggling to ground myself in the next story. Unaccustomed...
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