Human Smoke reviewed by Colm Toibin

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Next week, Colm Toibin will be appearing with Nathan Englander at the Wayward Sons session at the Virginia Festival of the Book. You can get a preview of Toibin’s style in this NYT review of Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke. Toibin considers Human Smoke more worthy of a respectful reading than did NYT reviewer William Grimes, [...]

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links for 2008-03-22

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

WSUI AM 910–”Live from Prairie Lights” The Best of Current Literature on Local Public Radio HT: Dan D. The 2008 Tournament of Books – Judge Ted Genoways “Even in defeat, Marche garners some serious praise from Genoways. Being called ‘Nabokovian’ is like crack to many literary authors, sort of the inverse of a standup comedian [...]

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Q & A with Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream author Jennifer Ackerman

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer AckermanRead more about this book… The three authors on the Science Writing panel at next week’s Virginia Festival of the Book have a theme in common: Life cycles. Susan Freinkel writes about the cycles of growth, maturity, and death in [...]

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VQR Spring Issue: The Christian with Four Aces

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

VQR tantalizes us with an advance release of one of their Spring issue articles. Bill Sizemore, author of The Christian with Four Aces, has been writing about Robertson for over twelve years. Now that’s a whole lotta fruitcake. I spoiled Pat Robertson’s birthday. I know, because he told me so. On March 22, 2007, the [...]

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