by | Feb 2, 2009 | Literary News
from the New Yorker CRASH MANSION With the Christian Science Monitor announcing that it plans to cease publishing a print edition and move its operations entirely to the Internet and the same strategy reportedly in the works at U.S. News & World Report and...
by | Feb 1, 2009 | Literary News
from the NY Observer Vile Bodies BY DAMIAN DA COSTA | Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz AgeBy D.J. TaylorFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 361 pages, $27 British tabloids of the 1920s bestowed the sobriquet “Bright Young People” on the generation...
by | Jan 30, 2009 | Literary News
from the NY Times Requiem By JOHN UPDIKE It came to me the other day: Were I to die, no one would say, “Oh, what a shame! So young, so full Of promise — depths unplumbable!” Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes Will greet my overdue demise; The wide response will be, I...
by | Jan 27, 2009 | Literary News
from CNN Famed author John Updike dies of cancer at 76 (CNN) — Author John Updike, regarded as one of the greatest and most prolific writers in modern American letters, died Tuesday, his publicist said. He was 76. Updike passed away Tuesday morning after...
by | Jan 23, 2009 | Literary News
from TIME Magazine Books Unbound By Lev Grossman Here’s a literary parable for the 21st century. Lisa Genova, 38, was a health-care-industry consultant in Belmont, Mass., who wanted to be a novelist, but she couldn’t get her book published for love or...
by | Jan 22, 2009 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK How the web is undermining reading From Plato to Guitar Hero, we have always been wary of change – but the internet poses a serious threat to society’s ability to read Naomi Alderman guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 January 2009 12.00 GMT...
