by bertbaby | Sep 13, 2013 | Book Reviews
September 13: “If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.…”
by bertbaby | Sep 12, 2013 | Book Reviews
“I was living in a small Icelandic town where I felt conspicuous as a foreignor, yet also socially isolated. I didn’t speak any Icelandic at that stage, it was winter, and the days were gripped by darkness for up to twenty hours at a time. It was during...
by bertbaby | Sep 12, 2013 | Book Reviews
Caleb Crain, author of the luminous and elegant novel Necessary Errors (Discover, Fall 2013) discusses the appeal of sending a character abroad, asks “how someone can be responsible for something he doesn’t know”, and shares a list of his favorites...
by bertbaby | Sep 12, 2013 | Book Reviews
September 12: “Why doesn’t some painstaking pundit attempt a grammar of the American language…? English, that is, as spoken by the great masses of the plain people of this fair land.”
by bertbaby | Sep 12, 2013 | Book Reviews
A girl grows in Brooklyn, in the latest from the author of Charming Billy.
by bertbaby | Sep 11, 2013 | Book Reviews
September 11: “And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world…”
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