Month: March 2008

March 13, 2008

>The New Yorker: "The Bell Ringer" by John Burnside

>It might be my fault that I didn’t like this story. I was in the mood to be transported and this didn’t do it…
March 10, 2008

>The Bat Segundo Shows #183-188 (and more)

>Check out the latest podcasts from The Bat Segundo Show: These shows include our first bilingual podcast with CJ7 director Stephen Chow and star…
March 9, 2008

>Guest Review: The Leper Compound by Paula Nangle

>Guest Reviewer: Susan Woodring The Leper Compound (Bellevue Literary Press, 2008) by Paula Nangle is a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of violence,…
March 9, 2008

>ASC: Volpone

>On Saturday night I saw the American Shakespeare Center‘s production of Ben Jonson’s Volpone. This is the third of five shows I’ve seen during…
March 7, 2008

>You Have Time for This

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March 7, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Raj, Bohemian" by Hari Kunzru

>Having just read Kunzru’s new novel, My Revolutions, I was looking forward to this story. Not that I loved the novel (a story for…
March 7, 2008

>And the winner is . . .

>Over at Critical Mass, the NBCC Awards were being live-blogged last night, so we all could have been following along as the winners were…
March 6, 2008

>NBCC Awards 2008

>The National Book Critics Circle Awards will be announced today in New York. Stay tuned . . .
March 6, 2008

>Radical Gratitude by Mary Akers

>Radical Gratitude by my friend Mary Akers was published on March 1 by Allen & Unwin. It’s a beautiful inspirational self-help book (actually more…
March 5, 2008

>A Celebration of Women Writers

>I suppose this database is only feasible because women have not always had the same opportunities to write as men, and so the list…