Literarture
Allen Ginsberg, Herbert Gold and my Man kiss
By Tom Teicholz at 6 August, 2008, 1:41 pm
Last Friday I interviewed writer Herbert Gold for an upcoming column (which I should be writing instead of this!). We discussed Allen Ginsberg with whom Gold went to college at Columbia. I’ll be sure to mention that in the column, but two things that may not make it in I wanted to add here: First, […]
Read More >>Summer Reading List
By Tom Teicholz at 23 July, 2008, 4:29 pm
I’m always getting asked what I’m going to read this summer, or more to the point what others should be reading: Here’s a list of some books I hope to tackle this summer in hardback and paper and others I am recommending as part of the mix.All are novels unless noted otherwiseUnaccustomed Earth by Jumpha […]
Read More >>Bruccoli: The Fitzgerald expert
By Tom Teicholz at 11 June, 2008, 3:38 pm
In the New York Times books blog, paper cuts, Rachel Donadio has a nice obituary reminiscence about Matthew J. Bruccoli, the Fitzgerald expert, who wrote many many volumes on F. Scott,, particularly about his time in Hollywood. In high school I was a Fitzgerald fanatic, and wrote a big senior essay on Fitzgerald (although I […]
Read More >>At Kerouac’s Grave
By Tom Teicholz at 23 April, 2008, 4:30 pm
Lowell, Mass is famous for many things including its history as a factory town where many young women worked and who fought hard for decent work conditions and a union. However, the first thing that comes to mind for me when you say Lowell is that it is the place where Jack Kerouac was born […]
Read More >>At Kerouac’s Grave
By Tom Teicholz at 23 April, 2008, 4:30 pm
Lowell, Mass is famous for many things including its history as a factory town where many young women worked and who fought hard for decent work conditions and a union. However, the first thing that comes to mind for me when you say Lowell is that it is the place where Jack Kerouac was born […]
Read More >>Report from France’s book fair
By Tom Teicholz at 18 March, 2008, 11:04 am
This year’s Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at […]
Read More >>Report from France’s book fair
By Tom Teicholz at 18 March, 2008, 11:04 am
This year’s Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at […]
Read More >>Report from France’s book fair
By Tom Teicholz at 18 March, 2008, 11:04 am
This year’s Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at […]
Read More >>Report from France’s book fair
By Tom Teicholz at 18 March, 2008, 11:04 am
This year’s Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel’s 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at […]
Read More >>Readings and writings
By Tom Teicholz at 17 March, 2008, 10:13 am
Richard Price has sold movie rights to “Lush Life” to Scott Rudin/Miramax. Price will write the screenplay. Edward Rothstein‘s essay on public libraries, their past, present, and future, is worth reading and gives one a lot to think about it. Actually I found it quite inspiring. I’ve been mulling over my feelings about Dutton’s bookstore’s […]
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