Literarture
Philip Roth from conversation to Fiction in EXIT GHOST
By Tom Teicholz at 26 February, 2008, 3:14 pm
As I mentioned in my current column, I have been trying to catch up on the stack of last year’s books that I should have and wanted to read but just never got around to.
As past of that syllabus, I recently embarked on Philip Roth’s Exit Ghost.
I was reading along, enjoying the [...]
An Obit worth reading
By Tom Teicholz at 13 February, 2008, 2:47 pm
Martha Blum, author of the Walnut Tree has died. Her obit in The Globe and Mail is worth reading…..read all the way to the end and read her last words….
MARTHA BLUM, 94: WRITER
Pharmacist survived the Holocaust to publish her first novel at 86
All told, the Saskatoon teacher and musician wrote three
books — all in [...]
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 [...]
Read More >>Should Nabokov’s final manuscript be destroyed?
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:28 am
Ron Rosenbaum, who has thought deeply and written lengthily about his obsessions and insights regarding the work of Vladmir Nabokov has a piece in Slate where he weighs in on the dilemma facing Nabokov’s son Dmitri as to whether he should follow his father’s wishes and destroy the notes made for a never finished novel [...]
Read More >>Should Nabokov’s final manuscript be destroyed?
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:28 am
Ron Rosenbaum, who has thought deeply and written lengthily about his obsessions and insights regarding the work of Vladmir Nabokov has a piece in Slate where he weighs in on the dilemma facing Nabokov’s son Dmitri as to whether he should follow his father’s wishes and destroy the notes made for a never finished novel [...]
Read More >>Should Nabokov’s final manuscript be destroyed?
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:28 am
Ron Rosenbaum, who has thought deeply and written lengthily about his obsessions and insights regarding the work of Vladmir Nabokov has a piece in Slate where he weighs in on the dilemma facing Nabokov’s son Dmitri as to whether he should follow his father’s wishes and destroy the notes made for a never finished novel [...]
Read More >>Should Nabokov’s final manuscript be destroyed?
By Tom Teicholz at 17 January, 2008, 10:28 am
Ron Rosenbaum, who has thought deeply and written lengthily about his obsessions and insights regarding the work of Vladmir Nabokov has a piece in Slate where he weighs in on the dilemma facing Nabokov’s son Dmitri as to whether he should follow his father’s wishes and destroy the notes made for a never finished novel [...]
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