About the author
“He lives in Montana with his future ex-wife,” and other honest author bios. (Thanks, Lauren.)
“He lives in Montana with his future ex-wife,” and other honest author bios. (Thanks, Lauren.)
In “a society where the mass media are reduced to self-censoring impotence,” Solzhenitsyn is silent, but Zinovy Zinik urges his countrymen to revisit The Gulag Archipelago.
Jhumpa Lahiri watches The Namesake: “For the first time I was able to experience something I had written and have [a] reaction to it.”
The 2007 Tournament of Books begins with a face-off between two novels I admire: Half of a Yellow Sun and Absurdistan.
Doesn’t it seem like the angels and archangels and all the company of heaven should’ve joined together by now to proclaim that Junot Díaz’s first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will be out this September? But no. It is winter, and so we trudge along with Oprah scandals, Dawkins’ rantings, and editor doocings. Oh, and of course, . . .