Well, this was another friend-visit weekend, but that meant that yesterday I finally got to go on the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s river cruise tour—trying to convince the CP to do touristy things in the city he grew up in is a nonstarter. Highly recommended to anyone that visits Chicago in the warmer months. I [...]
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This week has been a bit Wood-focused but I’m sure this will be the last such post. The New York Times has a review up today, though, of How Fiction Works that is generally sympathetic to my own view. In fact, it even makes the same allusion at one point: Take his disquisition on [...] James Wood has been accused in several places (including here) of prescriptivism in his recent book, How Fiction Works. He has denied the charge, but some of its truth lingers. Most of How Fiction Works is an explanation of just that—Wood has written, allegedly for “the common reader,” an account of everything from narrative [...] First: * Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? * Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both? And, Second: * Do you consider yourself a sports fan? * Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic there; [...] I could tell from Daniel Green’s review of How Fiction Works, the new book by James Wood, that I would have some issues with it. Of course, I read a lot of books I predict I will disagree with or dislike for whatever reason; I like to be sporting like that. Wood even lets [...] I always remove a hardcover’s dust jacket while reading, as I find it just slides around and gets in the way, and I don’t like subjecting it to the dangers of my purse. So one of the first things I noticed about When We Were Romans was the lovely illustration of Rome in place [...] Today’s question: Favorite bookstores. What’s your favorite bookstore? Is it an online store or a bricks-and-mortar store? How often do you go book shopping? Is your favorite bookstore (or bookstores) listed as a favorite in LT? Do you attend events at local bookstores? Do you use LT to find events? Well, I buy almost [...] I just finished the Project from Hell. It was my old job, which was a contract position, and just never, ever ended…it dragged on until finally it wasn’t full-time, and then it wasn’t even part-time, but there was still one lingering thing I had to edit…then finally this last thing had been written and [...] Book banning should never really come as a surprise. Almost all books can offend someone, sometime, somewhere, and it can be depressingly hard to find people who truly believe in freedom of expression. Of course, the jackasses blogging for The Guardian don’t have the power to stop anybody reading anything—except their own paper—but Anthony [...] I’m back now from a lovely weekend away. We slept, we lazed, and we grilled. This is where we stayed. Can’t make out the house? I barely could, but it’s there. Right behind that tree…. I got started on When We Were Romans yesterday, and I’m not very far yet but not impressed. [...] |
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