This post was written by Friday guest blogger Emma Garman. Kung Fu High School by Ryan Gattis is another novel that promises to straddle the young adult/mainstream categories. Although not for the squeamish, this dystopian portrait of a violent school strictly divided along gang-lines is gripping and original. From a BBC website interview: The novel’s main character, Jen, a half-Latina, . . .
This post was written by Friday guest blogger Emma Garman. Ronald Aronson points out that: A careful reading of The Fall reveals that President Bush’s quote from Albert Camus in Brussels was an astonishing mistake. Many of our European friends may now be laughing up their sleeves at the United States’ head of state. To those who know Camus, a . . .
This post was written by Friday guest blogger Emma Garman. Novelist Kate Saunders (The Marrying Game) approves of Anne Kingston’s The Meaning of Wife which is, she says, a pitiless meditation on a myth that won’t leave us alone. If you know an otherwise sensible woman who has started drivelling on about white frocks and wedding place-settings, please give her . . .
This post was written by Friday guest blogger Emma Garman. Apparently not, whereas Cynthia Ozick has a face just made to sell books, we’re told. Ozick’s novel The Puttermesser Papers features on a list of the top ten books about George Eliot.
This post was written by Friday guest blogger Emma Garman. As reported at the Literary Saloon, the just-released ‘100 Best Scottish Books of All Time’ is the subject of some controversy over exactly what, in this context, constitutes Scottish; in particular Woolf scholars are squabbling over the nationality of To the Lighthouse. The list’s criteria certainly seem fairly loose: apparently . . .