Sly wink at Terry Mac
Tayari Jones admires Wench, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who will read February 26 at Girls Write Now’s new Chapters series.
Tayari Jones admires Wench, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who will read February 26 at Girls Write Now’s new Chapters series.
If it costs $1000, count me out, but I’m excited to see the Apple Tablet. Matthew Battles looks at some of its historical (mostly failed) predecessors.
The Millions’ most anticipated books of 2010 include a collection of José Saramago’s blog entries, and much more.
The NYTBR praises my friend Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, which imagines the last days of Ethiopia’s emperor Selassie.
For Katie Roiphe, like Caitlin Flanagan, dodgy polemic trumps reasoned analysis. This week: contemporary fiction is flaccid.