O’Nan and Pancake and Lee, oh my
Monday: Stewart O’Nan reads in the evening at Pitt, in the 5th floor room where we have workshop, featuring arching gothic windows and the occasional wintry breeze. Afterwards a few of us join O’Nan at...
View ArticleLet it bleed
I’m partway into Zachary Lazar’s Sway, a novel which imagines three 60s figures before their moments of fame (maybe fame does hit – I’m only about 100 pages in). He follows Brian Jones (and the rest of...
View ArticleAbout that Sarvas
Mark Sarvas, who is a litblog friend, has published his first novel (Harry, Revised); it was reviewed in Sunday’s New York Times. Gawker characterized the review as “extraordinarily mean-spirited,” and...
View ArticleGirl trouble, Girl Factory
My review of Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe ran this past weekend in the LA Times (forgive my BEA myopia). There is more to the novel than one can responsibly say in a short review, a something more that I...
View ArticleThe mercy crying game
I started reading a book last night, a book I thought would be fun. It didn’t grab me, but I was sleepy. So I crashed and after getting up, I read some more. Then I made breakfast. I ironed a skirt to...
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Wrestling the backlist
Mark has admitted a penchant for reading the previous work of an author when he’s assigned a review. I think this is a fairly common trait; I can’t imagine any reviewer is willfully uninformed. Me, I...
View ArticleSo do you have a cookbook there, Mrs. Muir?
Who knows why The Ghost and Mrs. Muir ended up on my Netflix list — I must have realized that I’d seen the TV version but never the film original. I thought it was kind of a gothic-ish, romance-ish...
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