Archive for June, 2005
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
Literary events for June 2005
Here are some listings for local literary happenings during the remainder of the month, which we selected carefully and posted haphazardly. Events are free unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, June 8
Nicole Krauss reads from her novel, The History of Love, at 7 pm at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books on Van Ness in San [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Books, General by Rick
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
New York Times on class in fiction
Charles McGrath provides today’s installment in the Times’ mostly excellent series on class in America. His essay about class in fiction offers little that we haven’t heard before and includes this horrendous paragraph:
Celebrities, in fact, have inherited much of the glamour and sexiness that used to attach itself to the aristocracy. If Gatsby were [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Books, General by Rick
Monday, June 6th, 2005
Books on Monday
Books bought:
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
The Working Poor by David Shipler
The Numbers Game by Alan Schwartz
Books read:
Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
House of Thieves by Kaui Hart Hemmings
