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Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer
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About meI work as an arts editor and writer for a newspaper and website. I co-write a Sunday column (also podcast) called Withering Glance and do some book and theater reviewing for the Star Tribune (www.startribune.com).
About my libraryMostly fiction and poetry, with some biography, lit-crit, art-crit and history. I have everything I have been able to find by or about James Schuyler, Frank O'Hara, Christopher Isherwood and Jean Genet. Other loves include Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, Alan Hollinghurst, Colm Toibin, Edmund White, Knut Hamsun. Recent faves include Miranda July and Andrew O'Hagan.
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Jim
posted by jwhenderson at 10:23 pm (EST) on May 12, 2009
i'm jealous of that schuyler cassette! more soon. greg
posted by era at 12:29 am (EST) on Jan 12, 2009
As a result of the book, I'm inclined to read some more Henry James. I'll give Mothers and Sons a try.
As soon as I'm finished will get back with you.
Thanks for the recommendations. Mark
posted by mgaulding at 5:43 pm (EST) on Dec 13, 2008
posted by mgaulding at 4:16 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2008
i do have a galley, or should i say did, as it's just come out in stores...i did start to read it, but as soon as i started a wave of family emergencies came pouring in..which, of course, deterred me from reading..I LOVE wally lamb, and i've read his other titles, my favorite being She's Come Undone, amazing book, i can't praise it enough!
posted by limabean at 1:42 pm (EST) on Nov 16, 2008
Charles
posted by chalambe at 12:44 pm (EST) on Sep 11, 2008
posted by hernan at 2:05 am (EST) on Oct 23, 2007
I highly recommend Les Enfants Terribles. I think it was the first Cocteau that I read, and it's excellent. A good introduction. Portraits-Souvenir and Journal d'un Inconnu are both great, as well, but lean more toward memoir. And Le Livre Blanc is fun and racy.
Rorem's diaries are very similar in style to Cocteau's. But infinitely less discreet, and probably wider-ranging.
Dennis
posted by dmtmusic at 11:24 am (EST) on Oct 1, 2007
i did read the Haslett book, a creative writing professor in college recommended it and i really enjoyed it. i've been hopping he would come out with something new. i loved the Miranda July book, she is so delightfully weird. i actually saw her movie first.
-Arlo-
posted by foolishkiwi at 12:44 am (EST) on Sep 17, 2007
I haven't read the Parker yet - most of my biographical knowledge of Isherwood comes from his own writings, particularly the Diaries. The Parker is on my reading list, though. I really enjoy Gide, though I've put off reading a number of his novels. Cocteau, I adore. I'm a sort of literary great-grandchild of Cocteau's through Ned Rorem (my teacher's teacher), thanks to whose diaries I discovered most of my literary loves. Have you read any of Ned's diaries? They're catty, insightful, and delicious.
Dennis
posted by dmtmusic at 11:53 am (EST) on Sep 16, 2007