The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
The first choice of the F-Word book club/reading group is Lionel Shriver's 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'. This book was nominated by Aideen Johnston, who described it as being "Not only [is it] a very interesting critique on motherhood,...
Sunset Over Slawit (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Lionel Shriver's infamous We Need To Talk About Kevin was rightly lauded for tackling thorny issues in a sensitive, unsensationalised, yet undeniably thrilling fashion. It's a great book that makes you think about having children when maybe you don't really want them, or finding yourself with the kind of out-of-control offspring no parent could ever want. Her follow-up, Double Fault , isn't quite as...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Bibliophibians (n.pl) - those who are drowning in books to the extent they develop special gills. I loved this cartoon by David Maliki at Wondermark.com [found via and via ]. (Click up to size.) Speaking of drowing in books - what are you reading now? My current reads are 1) Lionel Shriver's harrowing We Have to Talk About Kevin which is our book club pick and 2) Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash which...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Lionel Shriver has been a fan of the work of Richard Yates since she read his first novel, Revolutionary Road. So when she was asked to read the late, neglected author's short story "Doctor Jack-o'-lantern" at Small Wonder, the festival held every year at Charleston, East Sussex, she jumped at the chance.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
I've been reading Richard Yates's Collected Stories. Lost Boys by James Miller is a post-11 September novel. I'm not sure it quite works but it reads very creative. I found Netherland by Joseph O'Neill mystifying. I found it so boring I wanted to scream, but for some reason it is a bestseller. I'm suspicious that without the small element of 11 September in it, it wouldn't be getting quite so much...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Katie Price, a.k.a. Jordan, has now surpassed Harry Potter author JK Rowling in the speed of her UK book sales. But she's never seems to be pictured anywhere near a typewriter, muses author Lionel Shriver.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Julian Baggini: Lionel Shriver is right that debt has a moral dimension, but it's not a simple matter of 'saving good, borrowing bad'
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Somebody here is playing games, says Lionel Shriver
theRatandMouse (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The average annual savings rate in America is now a paltry £200, not much more than the value of the coins that fall yearly into the cracks of the average sofa. I don't know where she gets her figures......
BookClubClassics.com (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver Release date: 2003 / 400 pages First lines: “Dear Franklin, I’m unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you. But since we’ve been separated, I may most miss coming home to deliver the narrative curiosities of my day, the way a cat might [...]
Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Intellpuke: This commentary was written by Lionel Shriver and appeared in The Observer edition for Sunday, August 17, 2008. Ms. Shriver's commentary follows: Last weekend in New York, my husband coyly announced that a big story had just broken that would destroy former presidential hopeful John Edwards' career. He wouldn't say what had happened (getting scoops before I do always makes him feel superior),...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Lionel Shriver: John Edwards's confession shows it is time to care about our leaders' policies, not their peccadilloes
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Comment is free: Lionel Shriver: John Edwards' confession shows it is time we cared about leaders' policies, not peccadilloes
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
A brilliant novel about life and death in New York demonstrates the power of compassion, says Lionel Shriver
Prettier Than Napoleon (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Lionel Shriver is probably my favorite contemporary writer. Her last novel, the Orange-Prize-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin, was a wringing and thought provoking look at maternal ambivalence and the potential innateness of evil . The Post-Birthday World is a very different kind of work, but it is similar in that it reflects back on a woman's life and choices, and asks us what might have been....
