Month: October 2008

October 24, 2008

>Of Deer and Beavers

>On the one hand, I killed a deer. It’s no endangered species, but I still feel terrible about it. I had been at a…
October 21, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Sleep" by Roddy Doyle

>What’s odd about this story is the sense of being lost in time. When the story begins, the reader doesn’t know quite from what…
October 19, 2008

>Library of Virginia Awards

>R.T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah, last night won the Library of Virginia Award in poetry for his book Outlaw Style: Poems. Congratulations, Rod! Check…
October 19, 2008

>Reprise: In Garstang

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October 17, 2008

>Another one bites the dust

>When I lived in DC, one of my favorite activities was bookstore browsing. On my lunch break I often walked up to the Borders…
October 16, 2008

>National Book Award Finalists

>The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards were announced yesterday. The winners will be named in November. I haven’t read any of these…
October 16, 2008

>Author to Author

>Curtis Smith and Susan Woodring, authors of short story collections published by Press 53, interview each other.
October 14, 2008

>The New Yorker: "Gold Boy, Emerald Girl" by Yiyun Li

>This story isn’t as good as the last Yiyun Li story in The New Yorker (“A Man Like Him”). After the first couple of…
October 14, 2008

>Man Booker Prize Winner

>It was announced today that Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize for his novel, The White Tiger.
October 13, 2008

>New Issue: BiblioBuffet

>There’s a new issue of BiblioBuffet up, filled with lots of writing about books and reading. Check it out.