Fast reading versus slow reading
By Tom Teicholz at 17 November, 2008, 4:43 pm
Over the last few weeks I needed to get up to speed on a number of writers, Yoram Kaniuk, Mier Shalev, Evan Handler, Jonathan Kirsch so I sped through a lot of books. I read them, and I read them fast — and it was amazing how one could really get a feel for the […]
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 >>I’ve been neglecting my blog
By Tom Teicholz at 8 May, 2008, 9:55 am
I know, I know, I’ve been on deadline on a bunch of things, and the items I want to post keep adding up: So Let me share some quicklyMark Sarvas read at Village Books Tuesday night from his novel “Harry, Revised” to an appreciative crowd, and I got to meet his bride, Mrs TEV (The […]
Read More >>I’ve been neglecting my blog
By Tom Teicholz at 8 May, 2008, 9:55 am
I know, I know, I’ve been on deadline on a bunch of things, and the items I want to post keep adding up: So Let me share some quicklyMark Sarvas read at Village Books Tuesday night from his novel “Harry, Revised” to an appreciative crowd, and I got to meet his bride, Mrs TEV (The […]
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 >>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 […]
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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