PEN has announced many of the winners of its 2008 literary awards. The PEN/Nabokov career achievement award went to Cynthia Ozick.
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
The Captive and The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
Recommended.
Posted in Read in 2008
Tagged c k scott moncrieff, france, in search of lost time, marcel proust, modern library, recommended, terence kilmartin, translation
In the Urban-Education Trenches
Maureen Corrigan of Fresh Air reviews Donna Foote’s Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches with Teach for America.
Posted in Education
Tagged book review, donna foote, maureen corrigan, npr, teaching
The Lying Tongue by Andrew Wilson
Not recommended.
Posted in Read in 2008
Tagged andrew wilson, atria, not recommended, uk
Fathers and Sons
At 42 Augusten Burroughs is the first to admit he has written “more memoirs than anyone my age should be entitled to write.”
At the New York Times, Patricia Cohen reviews his fifth, A Wolf at the Table.
Mr. Burroughs said he had spent most of his adult life terrified “that I was like him.” Still, he continued to crave his father’s approval and attention until his death. “I can’t say I liked myself for continuing with him, but I wanted to understand him. I was compelled on some level to try and try and try.”
Posted in Reading
Tagged augusten burroughs, book review, memoir, new york times, patricia cohen
Shunning Google
For National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Curt Nickisch covers libraries that are choosing to pay to digitize their collections rather than sharing control with Google or Microsoft.
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
Not recommended.
Posted in Read in 2008
Tagged ceridwen dovey, not recommended, south africa, viking
Off the Spit
At the Guardian, Kate Connolly reports that Dmitri Nabokov has decided to publish his father’s final work, which he had been instructed to destroy.
Posted in Reading
Tagged guardian, kate connolly, literature, uk, usa, vladimir nabokov