Remembrances
August, 2010
Guest Post: Michael Dirda and Book World, pt. 2
by Eric Banks | Aug-09-2010
The Times LIterary Supplement has been publishing an excellent series of columns this summer by Michael Dirda about his career at Washington Post Book ...read »
Guest Post: Michael Dirda and Book World, pt. 1
by Eric Banks | Aug-03-2010
The Times LIterary Supplement has been publishing an excellent series of columns this summer by Michael Dirda about his career at Washington Post Book ...read »
December, 2009
Guest Post : What Bolaño Read:The Literature of Silence
by Tom McCartan | Dec-08-2009
This is the third installment in the series “What Bolaño Read,” focusing on the reading habits of the author of 2666, which won this year's National Book ...read »
January, 2009
Roxana Robinson Remembers John Updike
by Jane Ciabattari | Jan-28-2009
Novelist and National Book Critics Circle member Roxana Robinson sent along this remembrance for Critical Mass:
I don’t know when I started reading John ...read »
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