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The Elegant Variation
A total literary blog, the Elegant Variation attempts to hold and entice its readers to do exactly that- read more. Really a blog about literary life in Los Angeles, the Elegant Variation is better than the Sunday paper for local going ons, and for everyone else it gives you a complete and fascinati...
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Tags: books, literature, Los Angeles, reading
Author: Mark Sarvas
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Posted on Tuesday July 8, 2008 at 04:06 PM
For those bewildered by the onslaught of Yiddishisms peppering Portnoy's Complaint, Associate Professor of English (and Roth Society member) Derek Parker Royal (such a goyische handle!) has posted Andrew Gordon's Glossary of Yiddish for Portnoy's Complaint. A sampling: oysgemitchet =......
Posted on Tuesday July 8, 2008 at 02:01 AM
Chicago's clean, well-lighted place for writers ... The suicide of Thomas Disch has been widely noted already ... Authors are treated as rock stars at a Brazilian festival ... James Bond's irreconciliable differences ... Following on the heels of her......
Posted on Monday July 7, 2008 at 02:44 PM
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Posted on Monday July 7, 2008 at 10:35 AM
"He arrives after we have already eaten, but his own dinner waits while he unpeels the soggy city clothes in which he has been making the rounds of his debit all day, and changes into his swimsuit. I carry his......
Posted on Thursday July 3, 2008 at 02:01 AM
NPR (which has actually bucked the trend and expanded book coverage) is the latest outlet to fall hard for the glorious Netherland ... (Speaking of Netherland, there will be no giveaway this week - we're going dark for the holiday......
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