What is the difference between a novel and a series of connected stories? That’s a question I asked myself repeatedly while reading Ali Smith’s Hotel World (a novel), probably influenced by having read connected short stories by her recently. The six pieces that make up Hotel World didn’t seem tight enough somehow, but there [...]
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In The Fire Gospel, one of the more recent installments in the Myths series, Michel Faber uses as inspiration the myth of Prometheus. Theo Griepenkerl is a Canadian academic specializing in Aramaic linguistics who travels to Iraq to make a deal with a museum in Mosul: send your artifacts to Toronto, where we [...] Another Sunday, another week without really catching up on my blogging backlog, or starting in for real on my next project. And another weekend away from home from which I return even more tired. Ugh. I mentioned several weeks ago, in one of my Schopenhauer posts, that I’d been thinking/reading some about intellectual property [...] Check out my review of Filip Florian’s Little Fingers at The Front Table. News in brief: The New Yorker Book Bench does a weekly covers contest, where they crop out a cover detail from four books for people to identify. Alison tipped me off that today’s was “Nautical Miles to Go”, a theme we thought I might be good at. And I was—I actually won! (She helped.) [...] Before The Housekeeper and the Professor was released this spring, the only other book available from Yoko Ogawa in English was The Diving Pool, a collection of three short stories. The blurbs on my Picador edition call the collection “eerie,” “psychoactive,” and “disturbing.” I found that a bit hard to believe after my previous [...] About to head home after an exhausting but super fun Fourth of July weekend with the consumption partner’s family. My first time in North Carolina. Did you know the Raleigh-Durham airport has a used bookstore? Small but decent selection and extremely friendly staff. I picked up a copy of Poor Folk, which I’d been [...] Well, sort of. I know it’s been quiet lately, and I have a bit of a backlog of things to blog, and have been super lax about getting to the long-awaited epistolary theme. But some major stuff has been going on outside of blogland, and it looks like this summer is going to be [...] You know how sand pools cool in the shadows when you step into it from out of the sun? Yeah, well that’s how he feels, I think, this boy, when he comes in out of the glare to the deep blueness of the shadows here. Like…It’s relief, I think. To be out of the [...] |
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