The Zombie Round approacheth
The Book Standard profiles the Tournament of Books, where Sam Lipsyte, Elizabeth Gaffney, and Sasha Frere-Jones have recently entered judgments.
The Book Standard profiles the Tournament of Books, where Sam Lipsyte, Elizabeth Gaffney, and Sasha Frere-Jones have recently entered judgments.
CAAF and Mr. Tingle discuss the feasibility of his writing her novel, and arrive at a plan: He’ll tell the story of his father’s life using the text of Jude the Obscure…
Reviewing an Eliot bio, Terry Eagleton asks why some critics, “like doting parents deaf to all criticism of their obnoxious children,” are hell-bent on defending their subjects. (Via)
In the current NYRB, Pankaj Mishra admires Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men and Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits.