Day: December 23, 2005

>Not long ago, I submitted a story to Chelsea, in large part because when I last submitted to them they turned me down but…

>by Lily Tuck Ella is an Irish golddigger in Paris, divorced from her French husband, living with a Russian count, desperate for cash to…

>by Jonathan Safran Foer I’ve been meaning to read this for some time, but finally decided to do it when I learned that the…

>by Joan Silber This collection calls itself a “ring of stories,” and was recommended to me by Charles Baxter when I described to him…

>by Marilynne Robinson Ruth Stone and her sister Lucille are left with their grandmother, Sylvia, by their mother, Helen, who drives a borrowed car…

>by Walker Percy I’ve wanted to read more Percy (I read The Second Coming some time ago) and this is considered one of his…

>by Joan Didion This is a stunning book. It is hard to imagine how difficult for Didion it was to write about the sudden…

>Happy Holidays to all! I’ve just come back from China. It was a so-so trip. The highlight was a little free time in Hangzhou…