Month: May 2006

>By John Coyne If you play golf—which I don’t—you might like The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan. For my taste, too much time is…

>Do you know about Glad Day Books? It’s a small press begun by Grace Paley and her husband Robert Nichols. I don’t know how…

>Although it was too beautiful a day to spend indoors, that’s what I did. I met other members of the Harvard Club of Charlottesville,…

>Have you always wondered what was going on art-wise in Beijing. No? Um, check these sites out anyway, just for kicks: Maya Kovskaya and…

>by Amy Bloom If I didn’t already know, I’d have guessed from reading this slim collection of stories that the author was a psychotherapist….

>Still haven’t read it, but I plan to! I picked it up last fall on the recommendation of . . . someone, can’t remember…

>. . . and stacks of books. Mostly I’ve been pretty good these last few months about not buying books, that is to say,…

>One of Charlottesville’s free weekly newspapers, The Hook, has a profile this week of Ted Genoways, boy-wonder-rising-star-editor of Virginia Quarterly Review. Because VQR’s excellence…

>Today’s New York Times offers a list of the best American works of fiction of the last quarter century. Check out the list here,…

>I learned yesterday that I have been awarded a scholarship to the Indiana University Writers’ Conference, which takes place in Bloomington on the IU…