Interesting Articles on Books, Authors, Reading, etc. - Nov/Dec 2009
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2kidzdoc
Today's Guardian has an article about today's announcement of the LONGlist for the 2010 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. It also lists all 156 books!
Aravind Adiga heads Impac Dublin prize longlist
Aravind Adiga heads Impac Dublin prize longlist
3kidzdoc
The French-Senegalese author Marie NDiaye is the winner of this year's Prix Goncourt, for her novel Trois femmes puissantes (Three Powerful Women), which "weaves together the stories of three women: Norah, who arrives at her father's home in Africa; Fanta, teaching French in Dakar, who is forced to follow her partner back to a miserable life in France, and Khady Demba, a young, penniless African widow who is trying to join her distant cousin Fanta in France." She is the first black woman to win the Prix Goncourt, which is considered to be the top literary prize in France.
Today's Guardian has an article about today's announcement. I was amazed to learn that the Prix Goncourt is worth only €10. The winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize gets €100,000!
Black woman wins Prix Goncourt for the first time
The same article also announces the winner of this year's Prix Renaudot, Frédéric Beigbeder, for his autobiographical novel Un roman français (A French Novel).
Today's Guardian has an article about today's announcement. I was amazed to learn that the Prix Goncourt is worth only €10. The winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize gets €100,000!
Black woman wins Prix Goncourt for the first time
The same article also announces the winner of this year's Prix Renaudot, Frédéric Beigbeder, for his autobiographical novel Un roman français (A French Novel).
4kidzdoc
This month's issue of Bookslut features an interview with the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa, whose clients include José Saramago and Javier Marías:
An Interview with Margaret Jull Costa
An Interview with Margaret Jull Costa
5SqueakyChu
I found this interview interesting since Concord Free Press has been featured on the LibraryThing blog by Abby recently. The audio interview is with Stona Firch and Wesley Brown, authors of the first two books offered by CFP.
6kidzdoc
The online edition of today's New York Times has a lengthy obituary for Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist, intellectual, and author of the four volume Mythologiques series, who died on Friday:
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Anthropologist, Dies at 100
7solla
I read that article. I was partly looking for some enlightenment on Levi-Strauss's central ideas. Many years ago I read the Raw and the Cooked. At the time I wasn't sure whether his central idea was very simple, and, to me, self-evident - in which case I didn't understand why people raved so about the book - or so subtle that I just wasn't grasping it. I noted that the article didn't really come up with a summary of his idea, but stated that he was controversial.
8polutropos
Elsewhere on ClubRead there was speculation earlier about likely Nobel Prize winners and Adonis was acknowledged to be a frontrunner, even though of course he did not get it.
There is a sampling of his poetry, translated for the first time, in the most recent issue of InTranslation.
http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/arabic/a-celebration-of-the-obscure-and-th...
There is a sampling of his poetry, translated for the first time, in the most recent issue of InTranslation.
http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/arabic/a-celebration-of-the-obscure-and-th...
9avaland
Publishers Weekly's top ten books of 2009 (notice anything about the list?)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704263.html
(hint: it's not that six out of 10 are published by Random House...)
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6704263.html
(hint: it's not that six out of 10 are published by Random House...)
10fannyprice
>9 avaland:, Lois, to be fair, many of their top 100 are by women. I know it would be great to see more women on these lists, but is it really the oversight/issue that some are suggesting it is?
11kidzdoc
The Guardian had an article about the PW list last week, as many other papers did. But, this article also had a link to a wiki list of "great books published by women in 2009" by WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) a new US literary organization:
Fury after women writers excluded from 'books of the year'
Fury after women writers excluded from 'books of the year'
12ShabaShundi
Este mensaje ha sido denunciado por varios usuarios por lo que no se muestra públicamente. (mostrar)
I stumbled upon your guy's site and found who I see to be one of the most prolific authors of our time.
I want to share his work with everyone I know so when finding this site.. naturally I went right to trying to post who I understand to be some of the more serious readers. In Hopes that ..you guys would consider the works of MIKE BICKLE and maybe if you guys think his books are as awesome as I do, maybe you will help get the word out. Mike is a very humble guy and he has not promoted his books.. like he could. He is busy waisting his life Gazing on God.
Anyway.. I want to help him.. because the comprehinsion that this man posses's should be shared and known by everyone.
With Love
From Inside The Father's Heart
I want to share his work with everyone I know so when finding this site.. naturally I went right to trying to post who I understand to be some of the more serious readers. In Hopes that ..you guys would consider the works of MIKE BICKLE and maybe if you guys think his books are as awesome as I do, maybe you will help get the word out. Mike is a very humble guy and he has not promoted his books.. like he could. He is busy waisting his life Gazing on God.
Anyway.. I want to help him.. because the comprehinsion that this man posses's should be shared and known by everyone.
With Love
From Inside The Father's Heart
13ShabaShundi
Este mensaje ha sido denunciado por varios usuarios por lo que no se muestra públicamente. (mostrar)
I stumbled upon your guy's site and found who I see to be one of the most prolific authors of our time.
I want to share his work with everyone I know so when finding this site.. naturally I went right to trying to post who I understand to be some of the more serious readers. In Hopes that ..you guys would consider the works of MIKE BICKLE and maybe if you guys think his books are as awesome as I do, maybe you will help get the word out. Mike is a very humble guy and he has not promoted his books.. like he could. He is busy waisting his life Gazing on God.
Anyway.. I want to help him.. because the comprehinsion that this man posses's should be shared and known by everyone.
With Love
From Inside The Father's Heart
I want to share his work with everyone I know so when finding this site.. naturally I went right to trying to post who I understand to be some of the more serious readers. In Hopes that ..you guys would consider the works of MIKE BICKLE and maybe if you guys think his books are as awesome as I do, maybe you will help get the word out. Mike is a very humble guy and he has not promoted his books.. like he could. He is busy waisting his life Gazing on God.
Anyway.. I want to help him.. because the comprehinsion that this man posses's should be shared and known by everyone.
With Love
From Inside The Father's Heart
14kidzdoc
The giant UK bookseller Waterstone's has lost its soul and killed bookselling, according to this interesting article in yesterday's Guardian by Stuart Jeffries. He does give praise to the London Review Bookshop, which is my favorite bookstore in the capital, as one of the newer "culturally significant small independent bookshops".
How Waterstone's killed bookselling
How Waterstone's killed bookselling
15fannyprice
>14 kidzdoc:, Darryl, that was a very interesting article.
An interview with sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/10/kim-stanley-robinson-science-fiction...
A bizarre article about a Massachusetts boarding school that has done away with physical books in its library: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120097876&ft=1&f=10...
And the Guardian on WW1-era writers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/11/writers-first-world-war
An interview with sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/10/kim-stanley-robinson-science-fiction...
A bizarre article about a Massachusetts boarding school that has done away with physical books in its library: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120097876&ft=1&f=10...
And the Guardian on WW1-era writers: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/nov/11/writers-first-world-war
16avaland
>15 fannyprice: yeah, I heard the Cushing Academy story. Fascinating (and somewhat horrifying). Imagine a library, not only completely digital, but with a cafe in the middle of it.
17avaland
>10 fannyprice: Fanny, my test is always to imagine the reverse. Thus, can one imagine (honestly) that PW might have been just as likely to come up with a top ten that included no books written by men. The answer there is clearly, no. (that's my short answer)
19tonikat
Ok I'll try to post that again.
Enjoyable ariticle on Nabokov by Martin Amis in the Guardian from last week:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/14/vladimir-nabokov-books-martin-amis
Enjoyable ariticle on Nabokov by Martin Amis in the Guardian from last week:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/14/vladimir-nabokov-books-martin-amis
20kidzdoc
In today's Observer Review, several well known writers and other public figures list their favorite books of the year:
Books of the year 2009
Books of the year 2009
21dukedom_enough
Small Beer Press satirizes ripoff pay-to-publish schemes, prompted by the recent "Harlequin Horizons" program. Via the Making Light blog.
23polutropos
Joan Didion Crosses the Street
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/joan_didion_crosses_the...
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/new_york_new_york/joan_didion_crosses_the...
25kidzdoc
Motoko Rich of The New York Times interviews Colum McCann, the winner of this year's National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Let the Great World Spin, which I'm currently reading, and thoroughly enjoying:
Significant (Little) Moments Pulled From Obscurity
Significant (Little) Moments Pulled From Obscurity
26polutropos
Tobias Wolff on writing, especially writing short stories
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/tobias_wolff.php
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/tobias_wolff.php
27wandering_star
This is a podcast, rather than an article.
I am a big fan of the New Yorker's Fiction podcast in which a writer reads and discusses a short story of his/her choice that originally appeared in the New Yorker. November's is particularly good - Orhan Pamuk discussing a piece by Vladimir Nabokov (actually an extract from Speak, Memory).
http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/fiction
I am a big fan of the New Yorker's Fiction podcast in which a writer reads and discusses a short story of his/her choice that originally appeared in the New Yorker. November's is particularly good - Orhan Pamuk discussing a piece by Vladimir Nabokov (actually an extract from Speak, Memory).
http://www.newyorker.com/online/podcasts/fiction
29SqueakyChu
Very thorough and well-written (long) article on IndieReader.com contemplating the demise of author book tours:
article by John Doulgas Marshall
article by John Doulgas Marshall
30kidzdoc
The New York Times includes in its list of Holiday Books a review of POSING BEAUTY: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present, a "definitive history of black beauty", which I'll give to my mother as a Christmas gift.
Holiday Books: Photography
Holiday Books: Photography
31wandering_star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jyXJTlrH0, again, is not an article, but please go and have a look at it - it's amazing. (I don't want to say any more, because I don't want to spoil the surprise by giving away any hints about the short video.)
32SqueakyChu
Best Books of 2009 picks by The Washington Post.
33tonikat
#6 - finally read the obit of Levi-Strauss who has interested me for a long time, really enjoyed it and guess I will try the raw and the cooked some time.
It made me think of different approaches to thinking/writing (not saying this was him by the way) but between thinking creatively for yourself and thinking but limiting yourself very much by evidence as you go - I guess both approaches have their own drawbacks.
It made me think of different approaches to thinking/writing (not saying this was him by the way) but between thinking creatively for yourself and thinking but limiting yourself very much by evidence as you go - I guess both approaches have their own drawbacks.
34dukedom_enough
New York Times reviews Chinua Achebe's latest book, first since 1990, The Education of a British-Protected Child. It's an essay collection.
35dukedom_enough
The Guardian has a list of the past decade's best unread books. Many such lists could be made, of course.
36kidzdoc
The San Francisco Chronicle lists its choice of the top 100 books of the year:
The 100 best fiction, nonfiction books of 2009
The 100 best fiction, nonfiction books of 2009
38rebeccanyc
Well, I got an embarrassing 15/40 - but considering I actually knew the answers to maybe 5 of the questions, that's not too bad. I think if I lived in England, I would have done better.
39bobmcconnaughey
http://wamu.org/programs/dr/09/12/29.php#30998 -
Donald Hall and Billy Collins on the Diane Rehm show discussing death, poetry and the dubious quality of Carl Sandburg's doggerel.
Donald Hall and Billy Collins on the Diane Rehm show discussing death, poetry and the dubious quality of Carl Sandburg's doggerel.