Ahhhh, So That’s What She Was Doing With Her Time
So I lost my bet on when Michiko Kakutani’s trashing of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road would appear. Still no word on road tripping from the critic. Now we know how she’s been spending her time. Instead of sharpening her claws for McCarthy, it’s another inevitable skewering of a Knopf novel. This time, Kakutani reviews Richard…
continue readingThe Sideshow at LBC
I’ve been out of the mix, but my colleagues at the LitBlog Co-Op have been hard at work promoting the Fall’s Read This! finalists. Up first, we have Sidney Thompson’s story collection, Sideshow. I strongly encourage you to head over to the LBC site and check out all the great discussion. Dan Wickett, from Emerging…
continue readingMcCarthy Gets Wired
Syntax of Things pointed out this absolutely mind boggling Wired magazine interview with Cormac McCarthy. It seems the legendary recluse has a fondness for the Santa Fe Institute, an organization “devoted to creating a new kind of scientific research community, one emphasizing multidisciplinary collaboration in pursuit of understanding the common themes that arise in natural, artificial,…
continue readingKakutani Shakes and Spears Rosenbaum
The clock is ticking on my bet that the New York Times would run a Michiko Kakutani chop-job on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. William Kennedy’s positive review of that novel appeared on Sunday, October 8th. The next day, I speculated that Kakutani’s inevitable skewering would appear within two weeks. Well, there is only four days left…
continue readingDrowning in Work
Sorry I’ve been so silent this week. I’ve been toiling on a nonfiction project that has kept me up working until 2am and then back up at 4am so I can get a few more hours in before going to the office. But in spite of all the work, it’s been a great experience and…
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