Archive for February, 2005
Monday, February 28th, 2005
Books on Monday
Books bought: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld The Perfect Hour by James L. West III Home Land by Sam Lipsyte Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig Books read: Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell The Perfect Hour by James L. [...]
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Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Jonathan Safran Foer Profile in NYT Magazine
For those of you who don’t have time to read Deborah Solomon’s fun profile of Jonathan Safran Foer in this Sunday’s New York Times Mgazine, here are my favorite quotes from it: His letters, much like his fiction, are conceived ”as an end to loneliness,” as he once put it in an e-mail message. And [...]
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
Do Blogs Sell Books?
I have finally jumped on the Home Land bandwagon and started reading Sam Lipsyte’s latest novel this morning. The book has received much coverage in the blogosphere, a topic recently addressed in Newsday.
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
The Onion interviews Dave Eggers
Check out the interview here.
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
Jonathan Lethem in Feb 28 New Yorker
I flipped immediately to Jonathan Lethem’s essay, “The Beards,” upon receiving this week’s New Yorker in the mail. A series of riffs on art and music and books and movies and loss, I found it intoxicatingly good. I constantly admire Lethem for his unguarded fanatacism about the works of art that he loves, his devotion [...]
