A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
The Family Mashber (called "a Yiddish masterpiece" by Cynthia Ozick) is the book of the month at The Book Depository (which offers free international shipping). Macy Halford at The New Yorker blog Bookbench, roots for "a movie version of [The...
Boomer Girl stories (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
From a happy couple who met on Compuserve (remember that') in 1982 to a review of a new book by Cynthia Ozick to some tips on how to avoid Lyme disease by monitoring your pets, we've got those stories and more for you today. Keep reading for details and links.
Boomer Girl stories (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Sometimes, I think, book reviewers do as much damage with praise as with condemnation. Consider the example of Cynthia Ozick. I have long been puzzled why this highly entertaining fiction writer does not have a larger audience.
The Bat Segundo Show (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Cynthia Ozick is most recently the author of Dictation. Condition of the Show: Overtaken by a tyrannical dictator. Author: Cynthia Ozick Subjects Discussed: [List forthcoming] EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Correspondent: I wanted to ask you about “Dictation,” the title story. This was very interesting to me for a number of reasons. Because here you have two writers, Henry James [...]
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Over at TNR, Cynthia Ozick considers Lionel Trilling's unfinished novel, soon to be published by Columbia University Press and discussed on this blog here: The breadth of Trilling's renown can hardly be understood today. He was a professor of literature at a major university who was at the same time a "figure" (a term he honored) in the culture at large. And what was he really? An essayist; and it...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
"Dictation: A Quartet" by Cynthia Ozick comprises the PEN/Nabokov winner's vivid stories of visionary cranks
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
In four lively tales, Ozick takes a playful route to serious points.
The Daily Transom (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Expect more gowns than tuxedos at the PEN awards ceremony on May 19 at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. The PEN American Center has concluded and it's clear the sisters are doin' it for themselves. Biographer Janet Malcolm, novelist Cynthia Ozick, playwright Sarah Ruhl, translator Margaret Jull Costa, children's literature author Theresa Nelson and poets Rosmarie Waldrop and Kimiko Hahn...
The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
My review of Cynthia Ozick's superb Dictation: A Quartet - which I somehow managed to write without talking about myself - can now be found at the Barnes and Noble Review. Here's the opening: "History," wrote Henry James in a...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
It may be the ultimate collection of paraphernalia of a band known for its fondness of paraphernalia, legal and otherwise. The Grateful Dead , the San Francisco-based band whose songs celebrated personal freedom, American idealism and mind-altering drugs, is donating a cache of papers, posters and props to the University of California, Santa Cruz, which plans to use the musical miscellany as part...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Author Cynthia Ozick is sitting for what she calls a "mid-career" interview, notable not only because she has just won two lifetime achievement awards, but because only recently did she accept that she has a "career."
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Apr 24: Acclaimed writer and critic takes Malamud and Nabokov prizes
New York Times (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
In the title story of Cynthia Ozick’s new collection, the secretaries to Conrad and James hatch a plot of their own.
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Cynthia Ozick is one of those writers I’ve heard of - I remember seeing her novel The Puttermesser Papers around about ten years ago - but she never floated to the front of my awareness until Nico made a comment on my blog a few months ago. He recommended The Bear Boy (also titled Heir to the Glimmering World ) and, almost as an aside, “of course her masterpiece The Shawl .” So when I was in Edinburgh...
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 03/31/2008
Cynthia Ozick is an American writer who has written poems, novels and essays. She was on the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for her novel Heir to the Glimmering World (aka: The Bear Boy). Reviews for her work can be found on this site. Recently I discovered a short essay authored by her [...]
