Month: October 2006

October 14, 2006

>The Tempest

>Last weekend I saw Macbeth again at the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse with a group from the Northwestern University Club of Virginia, after…
October 13, 2006

>Noo Journal

>Issue 5 of Noo Journal is now online. Time to check it out!
October 12, 2006

>National Book Awards

>And speaking of awards, the National Book Award finalists were announced yesterday. Sadly, I haven’t read any of the fiction nominees. Happily, I see…
October 12, 2006

>Interview with Robert Vivian

>Katrina Denza interviews Robert Vivian, author of The Mover of Bones.
October 12, 2006

>Rain Taxi Fall 2006

>The new print issue of Rain Taxi is available and the new online issue is, um, online. This is a terrific magazine of reviews,…
October 12, 2006

>Orhan Pamuk wins Nobel Prize

>The Nobel Prize in Literature was today awarded to Orhan Pamuk of Turkey. I’ve got Snow around here somehwere–I really must read it! NPR…
October 11, 2006

>Kiran Desai wins Man Booker Prize

>I wasn’t surprised to learn that Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss–which I have but of course haven’t…
October 10, 2006

>Excise Excess Exercise

>I’ve been working on a story I wrote a couple of years ago, based (very loosely) on a translation I did of a Korean…
October 9, 2006

>Russell Banks News

>If you’re a fan of Russell Banks, you’ll be pleased to hear that he has a new novel coming out in the Fall of…
October 9, 2006

>LitMag Wave: The Sun (October 2006)

>I have been a subscriber to The Sun for some time now, but I confess I don’t often read the magazine cover to cover,…
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