5 years after “liberation”
Mark the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war by reading Stern’s chilling, tragic interview with Lynndie England.
Mark the 5th anniversary of the Iraq war by reading Stern’s chilling, tragic interview with Lynndie England.
Round 2 of the 2008 Tournament of Books kicked off yesterday with my friend Mark Sarvas’ judgment. Today I choose between books by two novelists I admire, Joshua Ferris and Jonathan Lethem. Here’s how my decision opens: Jonathan Lethem is a gifted literary thief. I mean no insult. Last year, after all, he published an essay, “The Anxiety of Influence: . . .
One supposes Caitlin Flanagan finds her quotable teenagers the same place Friedman does his cab drivers, and Brooks his chatty NASCAR yokels.
Michael at Texas Pages likes the sound of (Californian) Jim Ruland’s Irish tamales, but wants Texan writers’ offerings.
No doubt David Grann’s utterly riveting Letter From Poland was the talk of the blogosphere when it appeared last month, but I only just rescued that issue of The New Yorker from the box of mail I packed up to move, and I spent an hour I couldn’t spare on this story about a brutal murder perpetrated in November 2000, . . .