Articles by Bezalel Stern
August 20, 2010
On Coincidence, Love, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being 5
Death is hidden somewhere in the middle of the book, and it doesn’t mean a thing.
September 28, 2009
The Impish Delight of Edward Gorey 2
Two assumptions are often made about the magnificent writer and illustrator Edward Gorey. First, that he is British. Second, that he is long dead.
August 4, 2009
Nabokov, Wallace, and the Incredible Shrinking Book 3
I was vaguely shocked and cautiously appalled to learn last week that Vladimir Nabokov’s “new” novel, The Original of Laura, due for release in August, isn’t, in fact, much of a novel at all.
“This very unfinished work reads largely like an outline, full of seeming notes-to-self, references to source material, self-critique, sentence fragments and commentary” [...]
July 14, 2009
Recession Reading: Independence Day by Richard Ford 1
Bezalel Stern is a lawyer and freelance writer who lives in New York. He is currently at work on his first novel about the life and times of a Wall Street day trader.
For some obvious reasons (and others not quite so obvious) around this time of year I often go back to Richard Ford’s [...]
