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A Booker's Dozen: The 2008 Booker Longlist

Nov 30, 1999
So long as the Booker Prize keeps longlisting 13 titles, I'm going to keep making that joke. The Booker season is underway with the unveiling of 2008's longlist.

Inter Alia #12: Tell No One I'm A Literary Snob

Nov 30, 1999
Film critics have lauded the French thriller Ne le dis à personne (Tell No One) with adjectives fit for a personal ad: "taut," "sexy," "smart..." Having recently caught a matinee, I'm willing to attest to its tautness. However, the climax reminded...

David Foster Wallace 1962-2008

Nov 30, 1999
It seems fitting to begin a reflection on the late David Foster Wallace in a fit of anxiety about reception - about the propensity of words, sentences, personae, to falsify or to be misunderstood. For example: I know this seems fraudulent an...

Appearing Elsewhere

Nov 21, 2009
Los Angeles-based Millions readers might be interested in Sunday night’s edition of Tongue and Groove at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood. I’ll be reading, along with writers Cecil Castellucci, Michael O’Keefe, Frank Montesonti, and Giuliana Mayo.  Show...

Bad Sex in Fiction

Nov 20, 2009
Bad sex in fiction!  Here are your excerpts from Literary Review’s annual contest.

South Africa, 2010

Nov 20, 2009
The last of the World Cup qualifying matches wrapped up this week and the final list of qualified teams is in.   See the list of the 32 qualified national teams headed for South Africa in 2010 here.

November Is the Month for Madrileños

Nov 20, 2009
Late November brings work of another favorite Madrileño to the forefront. The final book of Javier Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow trilogy, Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, will be published at the end of the month by New Directions. The incomparable...

Broken Embraces

Nov 20, 2009
Catch it while you can: Charlie Rose’s hour-long interview with Pedro Almodóvar and his muse, Penélope Cruz, touches on character, confidence, and control, and is currently available online. Almodóvar’s latest film, Broken Embraces, which I saw...

A Booker's Dozen: The 2008 Booker Longlist


Inter Alia #12: Tell No One I'm A Literary Snob



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