What I'm Looking Forward to Reading
March, 2007
What Are You Looking Forward to Reading This Spring?
by Jane Ciabattari | Mar-20-2007
In addition to the aforementioned Don DeLillo 9/11 novel,here are my most anticipated five (in alphabetical order):
1) Away, the new novel from...read »
What Are You Looking Forward to Reading This Spring?
by Marcela Valdes | Mar-17-2007
1) The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño (FSG): Roberto Bolaño may well be the most influential novelist to come out of Latin America in the past 30...read »
What are you looking forward to reading this spring?
by Steve Weinberg | Mar-16-2007
1.) Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta, Rod Stodghill, Amistad
2.) Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy, Andrew Cockburn,...read »
February, 2007
What AreYou Reading in Brooklyn?
by Donna Brook | Feb-06-2007
I recently finished Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iwealaand point out that, when he mentions his favorite books in the back, he singles out The Famished...read »
January, 2007
What Are You Reading in Lefkes, Greece?
by admin | Jan-19-2007
I was given a 3 month residency at The House of Literature in Lefkes, a small mountain town on the island of Paros in Greece. It's winter, and except for a...read »
Tugboating
by Heather McAlpin | Jan-05-2007
I've been reading Jonathan Lethem, and this passage on "tugboating" from "Motherless Brooklyn" caught my eye. It's something critics (often accused of...read »
December, 2006
What Are You Reading in Ankara?
by Michael D. Lukas | Dec-28-2006
Thanks to the generosity of the American taxpayer and the Fulbright Commission, I am spending this year in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. According to my...read »
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