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Good & Bad, Real & Fake, Cain & Abel, Jacob & Esau
By Tom Teicholz at 4 March, 2008, 2:31 pm
Lot to discuss:
First the Good: Richard Price’s new novel, “Lush Life” got a rave review From Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. How’d you like to wake uo to this line:
“No one writes better dialogue than Richard Price — not Elmore Leonard, not David Mamet, not even David Chase.
Or how about this?
In [...]
Read More >>The Brazilian Kafka? Clarice Lispector
By Tom Teicholz at 30 January, 2008, 10:08 am
This morning’s Nextbook has an essay by Anderson Tepper on Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
Her work called to mind a tropical, female Kafka with sensory overload. As the French literary critic and philosopher Hélène Cixous
put it: “I discovered an immense writer, the equivalent for me of
Kafka, with something more: This was a woman, writing as a [...]
The Stack
By Tom Teicholz at 27 January, 2008, 7:40 pm
At The Sunday New York Times – seems like late January is NEW NOVELIST MONTH at the NYT, (and at publishing houses for that matter) what with the recent feature on Jim Collins’ “Beginner’s Greek”, and this Sunday’s Book review of Tod Wodlicka’s “All Shall Be Well,” and the Charles McGrath article in the Sunday [...]
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