This post was written by Friday guest blogger Emma Garman. Apparently not, whereas Cynthia Ozick has a face just made to sell books, we’re told. Ozick’s novel The Puttermesser Papers features on a list of the top ten books about George Eliot.
This post was written by Friday guest blogger Emma Garman. As reported at the Literary Saloon, the just-released ‘100 Best Scottish Books of All Time’ is the subject of some controversy over exactly what, in this context, constitutes Scottish; in particular Woolf scholars are squabbling over the nationality of To the Lighthouse. The list’s criteria certainly seem fairly loose: apparently . . .
This post was written by Friday guest blogger Emma Garman. Jim Rosenau, a Californian carpenter and artist, uses second-hand books to make bookshelves and bookcases that are artistic, functional and environmentally sound: Rosenau’s grandfather and his father were both book publishers. But his main inspiration, he says was one essay, “Books as Furniture,” by Nicholson Baker, which describes how people . . .