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'The Second Plane' by Martin Amis
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700
September 11: Terror and Boredom IT would be too easy to read Martin Amis' slim book on Sept. 11 in a day and to dismiss it with a politically correct glare. The dozen essays, columns and reviews and two short stories in "The Second Plane: September 11, Terror and Boredom" are more illuminating than that, though deeply, sometimes self-indulgently flawed.
'The House of Widows' by Askold Melnyczuk
Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Family secrets lie at the end of a dark and twisted path FROM its puzzling opening line ("The most common grammatical error is the lie"), there's an ominous vibe to Askold Melnyczuk's third novel, "The House of Widows," and the sense of unease lingers until the final sentence. It's a mysterious, masterfully taut story in which dread plays a prominent role.
'Marco Polo' by Laurence Bergreen
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700
An account of the adventures of the celebrated 13th century world traveler. MARCO POLO was only 17 when he departed for China in 1271 with his father, Niccolò, and his uncle, Maffeo. Those two merchants of Venice were known to the boy primarily as storytellers of their fabulous exploits, writes award-winning biographer and historian Laurence Bergreen, for they had been absent more than 16 years, Marco's entire childhood. The pair had followed trade routes east, encountered exotic countries and customs and survived many perils; they had even lived for a time at the court of Kublai Khan, the leader of the Mongol Empire. Eventually they agreed to accompany his emissary west to the pope, vowing to return to Cambulac (Beijing) with several items the Great Khan had requested.
NYT > Books
Killer Children
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:05:58 -0000
In Natsuo Kirino’s novel, a juvenile killer on the run in Tokyo murders without conscience — and only in retrospect attempts to invent a philosophy to explain his crime.
Essay: Advice Squad
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:44:44 -0000
A guided tour of the books on the self-help best-seller list.
Rock the Casbah
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:34:51 -0000
Mark LeVine discovered that the Islamic world has a surprisingly active heavy metal subculture.
Fiction & Poetry
Mary at the Tattoo Shop
Marcus Jackson Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:00:00 -0000
She counted her money before we went in, avenue beside us anxious with Friday-evening traffic. Both fourteen, we shared a Newport, its manila butt salty to our lips. Inside, from a huge book of designs and letter styles, she chose to get “MARY” in a black, Old English script . . .
Thirteen Hundred Rats
T. Coraghessan Boyle Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the ceremony in the chapel he looked so scorched and . . .
Songs of a Season
Maureen N. McLane Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
for here or to go-- a glass mug, a paper cup-- life is fast, art slow only a few years before all that I am blows free, subatomic not for me that life the careless joy of the dog not for me that leap how to say beautiful weekend in . . .
London Review of Books
Not My Fault · John Lanchester: New Labour's Terrible Memoirs
New Labour's exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former ambassador to Washington Sir Christopher Meyer; and now memoirs by the former prime minister's wife, his deputy and his bagman. The granddaddy of them all, Blair's own memoirs, are still to come. It is an unprecedented cascade of memoirs by prominent figures in a government which is, let's not forget, still in power. The phenomenon seemed odd when it began - Lance Price was called in front of a Parliamentary committee in December 2005 to account for his temerity in publishing his insider's account. By now we're used to it, and it's getting to the point where it would be more surprising for a New Labour insider not to publish a book explaining how he/she was both a. more at the centre of things than anybody had hitherto suspected while also b. not to blame for any of the stuff that went wrong.
Diary · Sean Wilsey Goes Slow
In the fall of 2002, in the company of a dog named Charlie Chaplin and an architect named Michael Meredith, I set out to drive a 1960 Chevy Apache 10 pick-up truck, at 45 mph, from far west Texas to New York City: 2364 miles through desert, suburbs, forests, lake-spattered plains, mountains, farmland, more suburbs and the Holland Tunnel. I got to know both of my travelling companions during a brief period living in the town of Marfa, Texas, which is also where I found the truck, parked in front of the post office: boxy, banged up, covered in sky-blue house paint, the half-smashed windshield a lattice of stars and linear cracks, like a flag. A Mexican man in his sixties walked outside with his mail and drove it away. Then I found it parked out by the cemetery. Jesse Santesteban, the owner, showed me where he'd signed the engine compartment like an artist, and said I could take a closer look. The doors had handmade wooden armrests, and the seatbelts were fashioned of canvas and chain link. An orange shag carpet covered the floorboards. I offered him $1200 cash. He handed over a green plastic keychain that read 'Laugh, live, love and be happy!' and warned: 'Don't take it over 45 or it'll throw a rod.' A friend later explained: 'That's a polite way of saying the engine will explode.'
Men in White · Benjamin Kunkel: Another Ian McEwan!
'Netherland' is an ambiguous word. It evokes, of course, the Netherlands inhabited by the Dutch, one of whom, Hans van den Broek, tells this story of a few late years spent in that New World city founded almost four hundred years ago on Manhattan Island as New Amsterdam, in what was then the territory of New Netherland. But 'netherland' could also mean any faraway place, as in those 'nether regions' of the city where Hans's teammates from the Staten Island Cricket Club spend their nights. (Hans spends his nights in Chelsea, a Manhattan neighbourhood hardly described in this book, notable for a high concentration of well-built gay men, new condominiums, art galleries, bank branches and large home-furnishing outlets.) 'Netherland' also has sinister overtones of Never Never Land, and sounds like a euphemism for Hades.
Guardian Unlimited Books
Kathryn Hughes: Summer non-fiction round-up 2008
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0000
Summer reading: Kathryn Hughes picks the new books that will take you to faraway places
A life in writing: Tobias Wolff
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0000
Tobias Wolff: 'I hate cruelty. I hate a bully ... There's something in my president, that hectoring way, that reminds me of my stepfather'
Rereading: Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett?
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0000
Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dramatic monologue 'My Last Duchess' for clues
NPR Topics: Books
Are You Ready For The Summer? Camp, That Is
Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:20:00 -0400
A new book titled Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies is an ode to the time of year when kids swarm to camps with appropriated Native American names and sweaty cabins filled with bunk beds and the spoils of independence.
Carter's New Thriller Mixes Murder, Love And Politics
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:40:00 -0400
Novelist Stephen Carter, who is also a professor at the Yale Law School, says his latest novel, Palace Council, is a thriller, a conspiracy, a love story and historical fiction. And the process of writing it was "utterly exhausting."
Books That Knock It Out Of The Park
Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:09:00 -0400
Watching baseball and reading books have a lot in common. Both are made for the summer, require some investment of time and — the best part — involve a great deal of sitting. Alan Schwarz details his three favorite books on America's favorite game.
Slashdot: Book Reviews
Inside Steve's Brain
samzenpus Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:19:00 -0000
cgjherr writes "There are management insights to be learned from Steve Jobs? You're nuts. The only things you can learn from Jobs is how to drive people nuts. Or at least, that's what I thought up until I read 'Inside Steve's Brain.' Turns out, there are things to learn from Steve's obsessive perfectionism. Certainly I wouldn't copy every aspect of Jobs' management style. Doing that will likely get you fired, or at least reprimanded, in most companies. But there is some stuff to be learned from how Jobs designs products and analyses the market, and that's the view that Leander Kahney gives us access to." Keep reading for the rest of Jack's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide
samzenpus Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:10:00 -0000
lamaditx writes "There is a good chance that you have heard about "Web 2.0" — the buzz-word coined by Tim O'Reilly in 2005. You will find several reviews of books about this topic on Slashdot. These cover mainly technical aspects of implementation whereas this book introduces the strategical thinking behind the whole Web 2.0 movement... Web 2.0 is so much more than the technology.' The table of contents is available from O'Reilly, together with a chapter preview. The book does not come with any extras but includes the usual free 45 days access to the book on Safari. When reading a book I usually flip through it quickly to get an impression for it, in this case there are three things which I noted right away." Keep reading for the rest of Adrian's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Head First C#
samzenpus Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:24:00 -0000
Michael J. Ross writes "For computer programmers who do not have a solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP), learning the C# programming language can be rather challenging, even if they have experience with C or C++, which at least would give them a head start over non-C programmers. Any developer in this situation may well want to begin the learning process with a book that aims to teach both OOP and C# in as gentle a manner as possible, with plenty of patient explanations and illustrative diagrams — such as those found in the book Head First C# by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
A visible Past - Anthology of Poems on the Prehispanic Art of Mexico.
A Writer on the Edge - An article, by Beatriz Sarlo. Concludes, in short, that there is no writer in Argentine literature more Argentine than Jorge Luis Borges.
An archaeology of the Boom - A resource page with related articles about the works of Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez and Manuel Puig.
Anthology of Spanish Poetry - Several poems and interesting information about Spanish grammar and phonetics.
Argentine Literature - Ricardo Güiraldes's novel, Don Segundo Sombra. Overview and a passage translated from Spanish to English language.
Argentine Literature History - Several web pages covering the period 1810-1990.
At Home Abroad - The little-known field of Jewish Latin American Literature, an essay by Stephen Sadow.
Ayvu Membyre - Offspring of the Distant World, poetry in Guarani, Spanish and English by Susy Delgado.
Biblioteca Virtual Freyre - Americanism and Latinity in Latin America: increasing interdependence and decreasing separateness, an essay by Gilberto Freyre.
Cervantes and the Modern Latin American Narrative - An essay by Roberto González EchevarrÃa examines how the Quijote has been re-written in Latin America and Cervantes as a figure of the author is more important than Don Quijote the character, in contrast to Spain.
Cesar Vallejo: the poet, the militant, the communist - A short analysis of Cesar Vallejo's career and an interview done to Miguel Gutierrez Correa about the author.
Change of Paradigm? - The new Latin American theatre and the constitution of theatrical post modernity, by Alfonso de Toro.
Complete Review of Latin and South American Literature - Index of Latin and South American Literature under review, organized by author, title, genre and national origin.
Meta Description: [ Index of Latin and South American Literature under Review ]
Dalkey Archive Press: Interview with Carlos Fuentes - Travails with Time: An Interview with Carlos Fuentes By Debra A. Castillo
El Sur del Sur - Argentinean literature history, from 1810 to 1990.
Essays, Plays, Poems, and Translations - Contains Literature and Revolution by Fernando Alegria. An essay about the authenticity of experimentation, innovation and the revolutionary dynamism of existing Hispano American narrative.
Meta Description: [ Literatura y Revolucion, by Fernando Alegria - translated by J. Doug Ohmans. Plus selected essays, plays, poems, and translations. ]
Famous Hispanic writers - A short list of some famous Hispanic writers with their biographies and links to related pages.
First Light - An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writers translated to English by Susan Smith Nash.
Guides to Latin American Studies - Sources for the study of Latin American Language and Literature, general bibliographies and electronic databases. By University of California, Berkeley.
HFAC - Selected Internet resources in the Literature of Spain and Portugal.
Highlights of Brazilian Literature - Brief information on each of the major writers of Brazil and their contributions.
Meta Description: [ Great Brazilian Literature. Most important writers and artists. Portuguese language writings since Camoes. Free info about art, music, important people, historical facts, education. Poetry, fiction, epics, etc... ]
Juan Rulfo, The Sound of Death - Death as a fundamental element in Rulfian stories, an essay by Angie Galicia.
Meta Description: [ “Have you heard the cry of the dead ?” asks Juan Rulfo through the voice of Doña Eduviges in his masterpiece Pedro Páramo. If your answer is no, prepare yourself. Awaken your imagination and read the following: ]
Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch, Latin American Fiction, FL 380, University of Puget Sound - Reading guides for Julio Cortazar and notes about his book Hopscotch
Latin American and Spanish Literature - General resources prepared by University of Kentucky.
Latin American Collection at Yale University - Guide to Latin American bibliography, literature, linguistics, journals, and general studies, organized by country.
Latin American Jewish Literature - A Bibliography of works published from 1996. Related sources about fiction, poetry, theater and film.
Latin American Literature at CSU - A topic guide prepared by Joanne Gass, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, California State University, Fullerton.
Latin American Literature at UA - A guide for finding sources at the University of Arizona Library.
Latin Poetry - Biographies and poetry translated into English of four writers: Piedad Bonnett, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo.
Mexican and Latin American Literature - Selected sources prepared by Laura M. Boyer, CSU Stanislaus Library.
Mexican Poetry at AnaMia - A personal compendium of poetry. Includes poems by Amado Nervo, Jaime Sabines, Octavio Paz, Alfonso Reyes e Isabel Freire.
Meta Description: [ Some mexican poems and poets. Algunos poemas y poetas mexicanos. ]
NPR : Mexican Author Carlos Fuentes - Bob Edwards interviews Mexican author Carlos Fuentes about his new book, Inez. Some interesting links related to the book.
Meta Description: [ Morning Edition host Bob Edwards interviews Mexican author Carlos Fuentes about his new book, Inez. ]
On Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude - The full text of a lecture at Malaspina College in 1995. Focuses on the following facets: magic realism, time as linear and circular history, the distinction of men and women, and its relation with Latin America.
quot; - The case of México. Archetypes and themes. The Historieta as an instrument of political propaganda, as well as a means of social communication and source of popular entertainment, by Sergio Ulloa
Meta Description: [ HISTORIETAS By By Sergio Ulloa - on Mexico Connect, the premium Ezine and Web Site devoted to promoting and informing about Mexico, her people, culture, arts, history, business and travel. ]
SAmericaWriters group - A virtual place for readers and writers interested in talking and trading information on South American writers.
Meta Description: [ SAmericaWriters: This a place for readers/writers interested in talking and trading information on South American writers. Come and visit us! ]
Sincronia - A semiotics of film and literary fiction: classic, modern, and postmodern. By Lauro Zavala, Universidad Autónoma de México, UAM Xochimilco, Mexico City.
Some Ghostly Tales from South America - Overview of Magic Realists' short story art, written by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.
Meta Description: [ A bookstore specializing in hard-to-find
antiquarian supernatural literature ]
Spanish and Latin American literature - Study guide designed for the student of Spanish or Latin American literature. It is a selected list of resource materials available in the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.
The Internet: a Latin American Province - Based on his literary and cultural analysis, Roberto Hernández Montoya concludes that the Internet can be a Latin American province because its universal connections storm every frontier and place you everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
The Projection of Peronism in the contemporary Argentinean Literature of the '80s - Overview of her doctoral thesis realized by MarÃa José Punte, on Argentinean literature and the work of José Pablo Feinmann, MartÃn Caparrós, Jorge Andrade, Luisa Valenzuela, Carlos Gorostiza, Dalmiro Sáenz and Sergio Joselovsky.
Meta Description: [ Investigación acerca de la literatura argentina contemporánea, del peronsimo y de la historia argentina en las obras de Jose Pablo Feinmann, Martin Caparros, Jorge Andrade, Luisa Valenzuela, Carlos Gorostiza, Dalmiro Saenz, Sergio Joselovsky. Research on peronism, argentine history, literature an... ]
The Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Project - An electronic edition of her complete works based on the text of Adolfo Méndez Plancarte and Alberto G. Salceda.
Tiras cómicas latinoamericanas - A sampling of Latin American comics, both Spanish and Portuguese, edited by Mark Rosenfelder.
Tribute to Ruben Dario - An extensive collection of poems by Ruben Dario.
Women in Latin American Literature - A selected list of narrative, poetry, drama and criticism by Latin American women.
Zeroland - South American literature directory. Alphabetical listing of online literary resources organized by country and author name.
Meta Description: [ World literature directory. Alphabetical listing of online literary webpages organised by country and author name. Zeroland. ]
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