Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Afterword Reading Society

Posted on March 12, 2010 by kara

from the afterward: Here ye! Follow our new thrice-yearly Reading Society as we take on our first book: Daniel O’Thunder by B.C. writer Ian Weir. Our panel – Erin Balser, Craig Davidson, Brad Frenette, Ben Kaplan, Mark Medley and Ron … Continue reading →

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One Day in the Life of Sylvia Plath

Posted on March 12, 2010 by kara

Journal Entry from Cambridge February 19th, 1956 To whom it may concern: Every now and then there comes a time when the neutral and impersonal forces of the world turn and come together in a thunder-crack of judgment. There is … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 10, 2010 by kara

Book Cover Portraits by Painter Richard Baker Credit: Richard Baker (rcdbaker@earthlink.net).

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“Palazzos of Human Thought”? Britain’s Super-Libraries Battle it out for Supremacy

Posted on March 9, 2010 by kara

“A palazzo of human thought,” is how Birmingham city council’s leader describes the new Library of Birmingham, currently under construction. The library, designed by fabulous and innovative Delft-based Dutch architects Mecanoo is vying to outdo the other new “Super-Libraries” sweeping … Continue reading →

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National Women’s Day Spotlight: A “Hyena in a Petticoat”

Posted on March 8, 2010 by kara

If you are going to only read one weighty tome this National Women’s Month, try this one, written 218 years ago. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects written in 1792 by British … Continue reading →

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A Very Important Literary Challenge.

Posted on March 6, 2010 by kara

Are you scholarly enough to read books 56 Nancy Drew mysteries? From The Secret of the Old Clock all the way to The Thirteenth Pearl by December 31st? Then sign up for The Nancy Drew Challenge. I did. I dare … Continue reading →

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Egoist.

Posted on March 5, 2010 by kara

Stellar review for Daniel’s Clowes “Wilson” in The Comic Reporter Daniel Clowe’s new, original graphic novel, “Wilson” is Clause’s first novel not to be originally serialized in his seminal comic book series, “Eightball.” “Wilson” is a modern egoist-outspoken and oblivious … Continue reading →

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Paris Review Names New Editor

Posted on March 5, 2010 by kara

Lorin Stein of Farrar, Straus Giroux will succeed Philip Gourevitch as editor of The Paris Review. Read Dave Itzkoff’s piece in New York Time’s Art Beat. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/paris-review-names-new-editor/ Hopefully this will give Gourevitch time to write more books and New Yorker … Continue reading →

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Ruthless

Posted on March 5, 2010 by kara

Martin Stannard’s long awaited biography of Muriel Spark is due out April 12th. In it, Stannard asserts that Dame Muriel’s infamous “ruthlessness” is what she as a woman artist a male-dominated world needed to have to succeed. Spark was “a … Continue reading →

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From the Shenanigans Files: Literary Hoax Alert!

Posted on March 4, 2010 by kara

Okay. Jean Baptiste Botul is a clearly fictional philosopher created by a French journalist named Frédéric Pagès, who writes for a clearly satirical weekly called the Le Canard Enchaîné. Mr. Botul has a wikipedia page and a fan club that … Continue reading →

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