Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
''I love rereading, because it inserts you so deeply under a book's skin, and I've just reread two marvelous books. One is Famous Fathers, a story collection by Pia Z. Ehrhardt. She's masterful at stopping time at disturbing moments and then making us sit still with this ticking discomfort. . . . And I reread a debut poetry collection called What the Right Hand Knows by Tom Healy. It's alarming and...
Pen On Fire (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Marrie Stone interviews Michael Blake , author of Twelve, the King , and Dylan Landis , author of Normal People Don't Live Like This . Download audio . (Broadcast date: Nov 4, 2009)
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This weekend's featured contributor at Writers Read: Dylan Landis, author of the novel-in-stories Normal People Don't Live Like This.Her entry concludes:And I'm rereading all ten Cormac McCarthy novels, pretty much in order. McCarthy is a great teacher when you read him with two eyes, left eye for pleasure and right eye on what he's doing. I'm almost through The Orchard Keeper, his first...
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... from the true Church, which according to her is "Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic!" Next, Dylan Landis read from Normal People Don't Live Like This , the story of a troubled young girl and her relationship with her equally disturbed companions. Dylan captured all of the Sturm und Drang of a precocious teen growing up on the Upper West Side during the seventies. We rounded...
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
MIAMI - Jamaica-born author, Geoffrey Philp will be reading at with Dylan Landis and Marc Fitten the Miami Book Fair International 2009 on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 3410. More at South Florida Caribbean News *** Related Post @ Jamaicans.com Copyright Geoffrey Philp, author of Who's Your Daddy': And Other Stories All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be used or reproduced...
Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Miami Book Fair International 2009 Geoffrey Philp on Who's Your Daddy, Dylan Landis on Normal People Don't Live Like This and Marc Fitten on Valeria's Last Stand. Saturday, Nov. 14, 2:00 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor) Marc Fitten Marc Fitten was born in Brooklyn in 1974 to Panamanian parents. He’s been published in Prairie Schooner , The Louisville Review and serves as...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Dylan Landis has a gift for creating characters. Her first book of fiction revolves around Leah Levinson, a teenage girl in 1970s Manhattan, and it is in her character details that the writing comes to life. Of Helen, Leah's anorexic mother, she writes, ``Toast cooled before her.'' Of the school slut: ``The Gospel of Angeline Yost is graven into desks with house keys and the blood of...
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Hope Edelman, author of The Possibility of Everything, her first full-length memoir, and other works.Her entry begins:I recently finished Normal People Don’t Live Like This by Dylan Landis. It’s a series of interlocking short stories set in New York City in the 1970s and captures the complexity and angst and longing of adolescent...
Chicks Dig Poetry (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
--> First, a bulletin for Virginia fiction-lovers: if you live in Charlottesville or Richmond, within the next 48 hours you have a chance to hear the amazing Dylan Landis read. (I have raved about her book Normal People Don't Live Like This on this blog on previous occasions.) She will be accompanied by the equally amazing New Yorker Joanna Smith Rakoff. Here's a fancy write-up , and...
Sam Weller's Bookstore (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... love: from the immensely talented local favorites Sara Zarr and Shannon Hale to East Coast writers Dylan Landis , Jed Perl , and Edwin Torres . It does a bookseller's heart good. This year the Book Festival concluded on Sunday with a presentation by Selected Shorts . Yes, they do leave Symphony Space once in awhile. Isaiah Sheffer and two of his talented actors read some pretty bleak...
