Month: January 2007

January 23, 2007

>New "Bare-breasted Mama"

>The latest installment of Gail Konop Baker’s column, Bare-breasted Mama is up at Literary Mama.
January 23, 2007

>NBCC Finalists

>The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for its prestigious awards. The winners will be announced March 8. The Nona Balakian Citation…
January 23, 2007

>The New Yorker: “Demolition” by Louise Erdrich

>Although this is an engaging story, Erdrich never makes the narrator convincingly male. As the story begins, he is a teenager who becomes a…
January 23, 2007

>The New Yorker: “The Bible” by Marguerite Duras

>Girl meets boy at a café in Paris. He’s obsessed with the Bible, even though he doesn’t believe in God. She doesn’t either, she…
January 22, 2007

>T.J. Forrester in Harpur Palate

>Check out T.J. Forrester’s The Revolving Door in the new issue of Harpur Palate.
January 21, 2007

>Sunday Miscellany

>1. Weather. It’s snowing. Finally. 2. Name dropping. It’s no longer a rare occurrence, but I still get a kick out of seeing people…
January 21, 2007

>Because We Are Here, by Chuck Wachtel

> This is an engaging collection of stories and novellas by the talented Chuck Wachtel. What makes it engaging is that it’s different. The…
January 20, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Bravado" by William Trevor

>This story, set in contemporary Dublin, is told by an omniscient narrator who eventually settles into the voice of Aisling, a young convent school…
January 20, 2007

>The New Yorker: "Bear Meat" by Primo Levi

>The first story of the year begins with a distant omniscient narrator describing the hard, challenging life of the mountaineer and then enters the…
January 19, 2007

>What 19th Century Horror Character are you?

> You scored as The Headless Horseman. You are the Galloping Hessian from Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, surrounded by secrecy and…
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