Recent Articles
August 2, 2010
The 2010 Booker Longlist Odds 0
by C. Max Magee
With the Booker longlist out, that means betting is underway. Bookies are calling David Mitchell, Tom McCarthy, and Andrea Levy the favorites right now, with Damon Galgut the longest shot to win the prize.
August 2, 2010
A Curmudgeon on Two Wheels: The Bike Snob Book 3
by Bill Morris
Bicycles seem to be saying more about us every day – our politics, our social class, our tribal affiliation. In a word, our values. How is it possible for a simple 2-wheeled contraption to say so much?
August 2, 2010
Jennifer Egan at 15 0
by Edan Lepucki
Maybe the real reason I like Jennifer Egan is that there are so many freckled protagonists in her books. Patricia Zohn at the Huffington Post asks the author about her family, parenting, and her writing obsessions (like freckled faces). She even gets a photo of Egan as a teenager!
August 1, 2010
A Salinger Candid 1
by C. Max Magee
Newsweek unearthed a heretofore unseen candid snapshot of J.D. Salinger “three years into the seclusion that would span the last 45 years of his life.” (Thanks, Chris)
August 1, 2010
The Millions Top Ten: July 2010 2
by C. Max Magee
A (NYRB) Classic and a prizewinner graduate to the Hall of Fame. Two summer reading favorites debut on our list.
July 30, 2010
AutoSummarizing the Classics 0
by Ujala Sehgal
Graphic designer Jason Huff takes the one hundred most downloaded copyright-free books and reduces them (pdf) using Microsoft Word 2008’s AutoSummarize 10-sentence function. Book Bench highlights several of the absurd – if occasionally poetic – results.
