February 2012
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Watchjust an old fashioned love song
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“He’d turned twenty-five, the Age of Unfolding, and it was time to write a...”
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
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deWitt vs. DeWitt
Week #5: The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Week #6: Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
I found these books side by side on a shelf at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Both won bids for The Morning News’ Tournament of Books. I figured it might be fun to compare these as if I was the TMN tournament judge.
Charlie and Eli Sisters are the Sisters Brothers of the first title. The men are...
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because she loved to read
Week #5: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
One of my favorite Pulitzer-prize winning novels is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (a winner in 2003). When I heard that Eugenides was releasing his first new novel in eight years, I jumped to add the novel to the top of my Christmas wish list.
After reading Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides, I was surprised to find that The Marriage Plot is a...
“One reason radio is superior to TV is that radio has better pictures.”
– Jim Stagnitto, WNYC engineer.
(via wnyc)
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“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn’t get to herself.”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
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A novel within a play preceding an introduction...
Week #4: The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur Phillips
Smart, brave, funny, imaginative – these adjectives all describe Arthur Phillips’ faux memoir. For the first few pages of this novel, I was confused about whether I had picked up an autobiography or a work of nonfiction or a truly new Shakespeare play. Arthur Phillips is both the author and the name of the main character, making this uncertainty...
January 2012
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Watchthe cuss you are
