New Yorker, Garcia and more
The editor of 'The New Yorker', David Remnick is interviewed by JC Gabel at the Independent. In a related news, the website of The New Yorker has been overhauled. While I like the clean the interface, the redesign seems to have broken a unwritten rule that "Web Pages Must Live Forever".
Gabriel García Márquez turned 80 and rumor is that he may be be starting in on volume two of his proposed three volume biography.
The The National Book Critics Circle winners were announced and on the heels of the Booker win, Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss" has won in the fiction section. The general non-fiction award was won by "Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution" by Simon Schama. More details at their blog.
Eminent Kashmiri poet and critic Rehman Raahi has been chosen for the Jnanpith Award, highest literary honour conferred in the Republic of India.
In an article titled "Think you know how to read, do you?" Tom Lutz takes a dig at recent books like Francine Prose's "Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them" and Harold Bloom's "How to Read and Why" which wants to warn us readers of the evil English departments types who have taken the joy out of reading.
Gabriel García Márquez turned 80 and rumor is that he may be be starting in on volume two of his proposed three volume biography.
The The National Book Critics Circle winners were announced and on the heels of the Booker win, Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss" has won in the fiction section. The general non-fiction award was won by "Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution" by Simon Schama. More details at their blog.
Eminent Kashmiri poet and critic Rehman Raahi has been chosen for the Jnanpith Award, highest literary honour conferred in the Republic of India.
In an article titled "Think you know how to read, do you?" Tom Lutz takes a dig at recent books like Francine Prose's "Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them" and Harold Bloom's "How to Read and Why" which wants to warn us readers of the evil English departments types who have taken the joy out of reading.
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