Bookdwarf

The October issue of Boldtype is up. This month’s theme is ‘Self-Made’ and star bloggers Maud Newton and Mark Sarvas guest edit. They even have a special blog! I am jealous.

Well, I suppose my vacation really was in Fall, but I was going for that whole essay everyone had to write about what they did over summer feel. I got to the airport early on my way to Spain and impulsively bought Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King at [...]

Y’all should head over the the LBC site where Ami Greko, publicity assistant at Viking and all-around nice gal (I met her in NYC at BEA), blogs about, well, publicity. And tomorrow, Paul Slovak, Steve Stern’s editor and publicist for The Angel of Forgetfulness will be hanging around the blog.

My pal Red interviewed George Saunders and Paul Collins (separately of course) and posted the results. Seriously, they are fascintating reading and I wish I had half of Red’s conversational skills.

I finished this book before I left for vacation, but had no time to write anything about it until now. I’ll admit that the neat cover of Jesus Land first attracted me to it. I find that memoirs can be tricky things; Too often people often feel that their lives are a lot more interesting [...]

I was planning on writing all of these posts tonight about my trip–what I saw, what I read, what I ate (ham!), etc., but the jetlag calls me to bed earlier than normal. I will show you something I discovered in the subway. We disembarked from the train and were headed toward the exit when [...]

I returned from Spain on late Saturday afternoon. We had a wonderful time, which I will discuss later (there are pictures!). I read 5 books while away too, so perhaps I will post on those as well. But the main point here is that I’ve returned refreshed and ready to resume relating ridiculous things. Sorry, [...]

I was away when the LBC announced the Fall Read This! pick. This round Steve Stern’s ambitious novel The Angel of Forgetfulness is the pick, with some other great nominees. Since this is a learning process for us, we are doing things a bit differently this time. The other nominees have been revealed and each [...]

The Man Booker Prize has announced its shortlist, only 1 of which I’ve read of course. They are: John Banville The Sea Julian Barnes Arthur and George Sebastian Barry A Long Long Way Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Ali Smith The Accidental Zadie Smith On Beauty I think the winner should be decided in [...]

Lots of good things to read out there while I take a hiatus from posting. There’s a new issue of Boldtype. They are calling this month’s issue the Fortune issue. At Maud Newton’s, Roy Kesey interviews George Saunders, whose new novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil hits stores this week. Nextbook offers an [...]

I’ve had several posts get eaten today, which is okay since I don’t have much to say anyway. I’ve been reading and working and planning for my trip. Somehow it seems trite to worry about what books to bring with me to Barcelona when some people don’t have homes anymore. But I am open to [...]