Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
reader response: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
January 21, 2010
I finally read and finished Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
2010 | books, reading | Tags: cormac mccarthy, dystopian, fiction, parenthood, post-apocalyptic, reading, the roadComments (2)
the fade theory book club
June 04, 2009
Yeah, that’s right. The fade theory book club.
2009 | books, reading | Tags: autobiography, biography, book club, books, fiction, gabriel garcia marquez, living to tell the tale, readingComments (5)
daniel alarcón wins pen usa award
November 20, 2008
I’ve more or less stopped paying attention to all the literary awards. Not sure why exactly, I guess I just lost interest. Anyway, the PEN USA 2008 LITERARY AWARD WINNERS were announced a few days ago. I didn’t pay attention at the time (didn’t even glance over the list of winners), but I just saw [...]
2008 | books, reading, writing | Tags: daniel alarcón, fiction, lost city radio, pen usa awardComments (1)
skimming books
October 28, 2008
I am a cover to cover reader. Sometimes it takes a while to get from cover to cover, but it does eventually happen. Rarely do I abandon a book. And I am not a book skimmer. Being a book skimmer would make my life so much easier this week, but instead I have oodles of [...]
2008 | books, publishing, reading | Tags: books, fiction, marketing plans, novels, publishing, reading, skimming, spring, spring titles, workComments (2)
imperishable maxwell
September 11, 2008
John Updike has written a lovely and generous account of William Maxwell as writer in “Imperishable Maxwell.” The Library of America has republished his writings in two volumes this year. You can listen online to a related interview from All Things Considered or read this interview with Christopher Carduff (in pdf) who edited the two [...]
2008 | books, history, publishing, reading, writing | Tags: christopher carduff, editing, editor, fiction, Imperishable Maxwell, john updike, library of america, novel, the new yorker, william maxwell, writer, writingComments (0)
interview with junot diaz
January 16, 2008
One of the books I was very tempted by, but didn’t manage to pick up and read, in 2007 was The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. After listening to the interview below, I not only really regret that but know for certain that I’ll be reading it this year.
