Novels
Mark Sarvas’ “Harry, Revised” — available for purchase
By Tom Teicholz at 22 April, 2008, 3:39 pm
Mark Sarvas’ long awaited debut novel is finally in stores. Sarvas, as many of you know, writes the literary blog, “The Elegant Variation. ” I wrote a column about him once upon a time (check it out here). A fellow of Magyar descent and a francophile, he has been kind enough to cite this blog […]
Read More >>Mark Sarvas’ “Harry, Revised” — available for purchase
By Tom Teicholz at 22 April, 2008, 3:39 pm
Mark Sarvas’ long awaited debut novel is finally in stores. Sarvas, as many of you know, writes the literary blog, “The Elegant Variation. ” I wrote a column about him once upon a time (check it out here). A fellow of Magyar descent and a francophile, he has been kind enough to cite this blog […]
Read More >>Richard Price ALOUD (the Anti-Roth)
By Tom Teicholz at 26 March, 2008, 5:52 pm
Photo of Richard Price signing books with Louise Steinman of Aloud by his side: Here’s the main thing: In the pictures of Price, surrounding the publication of his new novel, “Lush Life”, Price looks like a guy who’s sober and several years into his 12 steps and not so happy about it — a depressed, […]
Read More >>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, […]
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, […]
Read More >>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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