2666 reading group includes editor — and you?
If you join the Bolaño discussion group, and sign up to lead one slot of the 2666 discussion, you win two free copies.
If you join the Bolaño discussion group, and sign up to lead one slot of the 2666 discussion, you win two free copies.
I read Anya Ulinich’s latest story, The Nurse and the Novelist, as a smart satirical comment on the contemporary shtetl-fantasy novel. New York’s Michael Idov, on the other hand, reads it as an “entire work of fiction [written] with the sole purpose of a barely disguised personal attack on Jonathan Safran Foer.” I asked the author how she felt . . .
My mother didn’t know most of the many women her dad married, but in email last year casually referred to a shooting. Of her father. By one of the wives. Next (I think) he married a woman named Evelyn, and, believe it or not, they lived on Daniels Avenue on SMU campus right down the street from my sorority house . . .
My favorite year-end books lists, like the Millions’ year in reading, focus on reading irrespective of pub date. See also obscure favorites.
The Elegant Variation is giving away several sets of The Paris Review Interviews this week. Go, go, go!