Recent Articles
August 26, 2010
Playboy and Madame Bovary 0
by Ujala Sehgal
Macy Halford at Book Bench imagines Playboy as the Madame Bovary of the 1950s.
August 26, 2010
Interview with A.S. Byatt 1
by Ujala Sehgal
Guardian posts an interesting video interview with A.S. Byatt about poetry, her novel The Children’s Book, and our persistent interest in ourselves.
August 26, 2010
Oral History at the End of the World: World War Z and its Cousins 2
by Darryl Campbell
World War Z is not a shallow book by any means. But World War Z never quite manages the same level of moral pique as The Good War and the now obscure former bestseller Warday, a bleak speculative oral history of America after a nuclear attack.
August 26, 2010
The Millions Interview: Kate Zambreno 1
by Anne K. Yoder
“I am saying that amidst all of this banality there’s something really dangerous in terms of how we swallow horrible things happening because they make us uncomfortable and ignore all the fucked-up-ness and like let’s talk about The Bachelor as opposed to Haiti and as a society we’re still totally totally repressed…”
August 25, 2010
Jonathan Lethem’s New York 0
by Ujala Sehgal
At The Rumpus, Richard Greenwald writes about the novels of Jonathan Lethem, urban gentrification, and the Sisyphean feat of achieving authenticity in New York.
August 25, 2010
How Much Does A Writer Make? 0
by Ujala Sehgal
How much does a writer make? The Rejecter (“I don’t hate you. I just hate your query letter”) breaks it down.
