Articles by Emre Peker
July 3, 2008
A Fresh Page in Politics to Make an Author Weep? 3
Elections in the U.S. never excited me much – partly because I don’t get to vote, but mostly due to the general lethargy of American voters. The brutal and breathtaking Democratic race for the nomination between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and the rise and fall and re-rise of Senator John McCain in the [...]
May 29, 2008
Writing the ‘Quintessential’ Book Review: ‘An Irresistible Story’ of Googling 4
Book reviews are not the easiest things to write in the world. No, this is not an “oh, me, book blogging is so hard” piece. Though, judging from the New York Times Magazine’s cover story of Emily Gould last week, that may be appropriate, too. I digress.
The books I read motivate me. If I am [...]
May 20, 2008
Welcome to the Working Week 2: Emre 0
[Editor's note: This week we've invited Megan Hustad, author of How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work, to dissect our contributors' first-job follies.]
Emre writes:
The joyous Sunday nights at college became my biggest tormentors upon joining the ranks of working people in New York. I’d get the blues every Sunday around 9 [...]
April 8, 2008
Save the Bloggers 3
We all work very hard at The Millions. But writing about books, despite being, uh, serious business, is not necessarily life threatening. Blogging for the 24/7 news cycle is, apparently.
Sticking with journalism’s good-old “three is a trend” praxis and using three bloggers who suffered heart attacks, two of them fatal, the New York Times published [...]
March 21, 2008
Spy Story: A Review of William Boyd’s Restless 2
When I picked up Restless, I expected the usual array of smart, twisted, unfortunate and hilarious characters that traditionally abound in William Boyd novels. I was pleasantly surprised at what I saw instead.
Boyd, it seems, opted for a new genre in his last novel. Restless is a mystery that unfolds in a series of letters [...]
March 4, 2008
Fiction is the New Non-Fiction 4
If con artists were smarter, they’d let people forget previous deeds first. Little more than two years after the James Frey debacle, the literature world is once again awash in breaking news stories of fabricated memoirs.
The New York Times reported Monday that Misha Defonseca’s Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years is complete bogus. This [...]
