My review of A.L. Kennedy’s masterful Paradise, turned in early last week, appears in Newsday today. Unfortunately, I omitted an important qualification from one sentence. The phrase that reads “a relative stranger, it turns out, and not one with whom she’s having an affair,” should read “a relative stranger, it turns out, and not one with whom she’s having an . . .
This post was written by Friday blogger Annie Reid. Annie signing off. Rumor has it that Maud Newton was spotted “slouching towards Bethlehem“, in pursuit of “some rough beast” (hawt!), but she might make it back to NYC by Monday. I’m turning the widening gyre to get her off course, but this goddamn blood-dimmed tide keeps lapping at my ankles. . . .
This post was written by Friday blogger Annie Reid. The pop culture/lit smackdown edition: Johnathan Lethem is in for some admiration and some scolding by John Leonard in the next New York Review of Books. In a column reveling in pop culture, Leonard crankily laments the influence of pop culture in Lethem’s work and suggests its time for Lethem to . . .
This book reaction was written by Friday blogger Annie Reid: Just finished Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor, short-listed for the Booker this year. Ostensibly, it’s the story of one mixed-race family — a father, a mother and a son; Silas, Lydia and Mikey — haunted by her rape at the hands of an Afrikaans policeman twenty years earlier. But . . .
This post was written by Friday blogger Annie Reid. There’s really no point in only reading people who agree with you. I love Andrew Sullivan’s blog because although I disagree with him on many, many things, he at least seems like an ethical, thoughtful guy. Also, he’s appalled at the adminstration’s implicit stance on torture, and he’s a big fat . . .