Great essay on David Foster Wallace, by Wyatt Mason (NYRB) – http://bit.ly/anS07v # Powered by Twitter Tools.
So, you want to write a thought-provoking novel about consciousness, death, fatherhood and the role of narrative in our lives? What’s the best way to do it? A stereotypical gothic mansion turned into a health clinic run by a mad scientist doesn’t sound like a promising start. A split universe setting whose hero is chick, […]
Great essay on David Foster Wallace, by Wyatt Mason (NYRB) – http://bit.ly/anS07v # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Booker prize longlist announced – http://bit.ly/b9nTEk # Reading Amis & McEwan – leaves me feeling that I and the world have been made smaller and meaner – Josipovici http://bit.ly/d3JlWZ # Powered by Twitter Tools.
They Kill Us for Sport – Lear, Happy Endings, and Niccolò Ammaniti's The Crossroads http://bit.ly/cJ6GTk # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Daisy Godwin’s lament about the lack of redmption in so many of today’s novels – made whilst chairing the Orange Prize judging panel – put her in good company. Samuel Johnson famously endorsed Nahum Tate‘s sugar coated revision of Shakespeare’s King Lear. The play had been too bleak, by far, for a Restoration audience, prompting Tate […]
I think only people who dislike a genre should be allowed to write in it – Joseph O'Connor interviewed by Peter Murphy http://bit.ly/9OQ6yj # If you're on facebook, try following Dublin's Project Arts Centre here http://bit.ly/c0odDL # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Great list of 2010's soon to be published titles (including Franzen, Twain, and Kundera) http://bit.ly/bqsuel # Hugo Hamilton on Greg Baxter's A preparation for death, in the Irish Times http://tinyurl.com/2fukcgd RT @ClionaLewis # The Irish Times looks at the boom in international crime novels – no mention of Antonio Tabucchi though http://bit.ly/9wlAHQ # The BBC […]
High praise for Greg Baxter's 'A Preparation for Death' from Asylum http://bit.ly/cnqY9e # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Biblioklept's very useful guide on how to read Ulysses http://bit.ly/cocZDs # José Saramago, master of what-ifs http://bit.ly/bMTUtm # 5 great books to geat you through the world cup http://bit.ly/cjFKzU # 5 great books to get you through the world cup http://bit.ly/cjFKzU # just got a copy of 'Stories', edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio […]