Tasha Alexander attended the University of Notre Dame, where she signed on as an English major in order to have a legitimate excuse for spending all her time reading. She lived in Amsterdam, London, Wyoming, Vermont, Connecticut and Tennessee before settling in Chicago.
Jane Austen, Michael Cunningham, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pauline Gedge, David Lodge, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami, Elizabeth Peters, Arthur Phillips, Anthony Trollope, Jeanette Winterson
I’m headed south today, to the Southern Voicesconference, a fantastic event at the Hoover Library near Birmingham, Alabama. I was lucky enough to go last year, although this time I don’t plan to drive home at 1am and get a flat tire when pulling into Franklin, Tennessee at 4am. Live and learn! It’s been a perfect winter here in Chicago (yes, I mean that in all seriousness….I love cold ...
I was completely stunned on Saturday night when I read the news of David Foster Wallace’s death. Knocked the wind out of me. I read The Broom of the System a few weeks back and knew at once that Wallace was someone who could play with language like few others; I like that. So I picked up Infinite Jest and filed it away as a Book I Was Saving. Wasn’t quite ready to dive into a thousand pages ...
In a sea of, well, ick, there is one pure delight to which I constantly turn: deciding what book to read next. At the moment, I’m well-stocked at home with Books That Need To Be Read, which is fantastic, like having your own private bookstore, and I love browsing my shelves.Shelves that are full of Books I Love, Books I Hate, Books I Go Back To For Comfort, Books I Keep To Remind Me Of Where I ...
