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Monthly Archives: August 2009
The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Posted in Read in 2009
Tagged crime fiction, knopf, not recommended, reg keeland, stieg larsson, sweden, translation
The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
Recommended.
Posted in Read in 2009
Tagged olga grushin, putnam, recommended, reread, russia, usa
The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi (奥泉光)
Recommended with reservations.
Posted in Read in 2009
Tagged hikaru okuizumi, james westerhoven, japan, mariner, recommended with reservations, translation
Don’t Look at Their Work
At The National Post Mark Medley talks to Martin Amis about teaching writing.
Posted in Writing
Tagged canada, interview, mark medley, martin amis, national post, uk
Cowardice and Valor
Jonathan Yardley of the Washington Post reviews Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Informers.
It is a novel about many things, all of them interesting and explored by Vásquez with acute moral sensitivity, but at its core is one of the greatest of all literary themes: betrayal.
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, colombia, jonathan yardley, juan gabriel vasquez, washington post
Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki (谷崎潤一郎)
Recommended with reservations.
Posted in Read in 2009
Tagged anthony h chambers, japan, junichiro tanizaki, recommended with reservations, translation, vintage books
Less Disciplined, More Earnest
In the New York Times, Jonathan Mahler reviews Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin.
Posted in Reading
Tagged book review, colum mccann, ireland, jonathan mahler, new york times
Supreme Literary Form
For Bookforum Craig Seligman elucidates the pleasures of reading first novels.
Some of us change a lot as we grow older, and some of us look not all that different from the way we did in high school. So it is with style. When we read first novels, we’re moved by some of the same things that move us when we see photographs of friends in their youth; the pictures of those who haven’t changed much are as fascinating as the ones of those who have. Our pleasure in these early books may be partly academic, but if it is it’s academic in the best sense of that much-abused word.
Posted in Reading
Tagged bookforum, craig seligman, fiction, literature