Bolaño
October 8, 2009
- For the past three summers, I’ve picked some rather voluminous reads to get me through the hots and humids of North Carolina. Two years ago, it was War and Peace. Last year, Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. This year, I decided to take on Hugo’s fabled tome, Les Misérables. Of the three, I have fewer quibbles with Les Misérables. While it’s overlong by today’s standards and, as ...
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October 8, 2009
- For the past three summers, I’ve picked some rather voluminous reads to get me through the hots and humids of North Carolina. Two years ago, it was War and Peace. Last year, Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. This year, I decided to take on Hugo’s fabled tome, Les Misérables. Of the three, I have fewer quibbles with Les Misérables. While it’s overlong by today’s standards and, as ...
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January 10, 2009
- Years ago, in fact in 1977, in my first weeks of expatriation in London (when, had things been otherwise, I would have been standing before my English classes giving my usual opening talk of the year that I'm sure my former students can still recite by rote), I contacted the NY Times Book Review and asked if they would consider printing an interview with the respected English novelist Beryl ...
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