Saturday, May 28, 2011

Jessica Savitz, _Hunting Is Painting_

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THE TITLE SETS the tone for the volume: a baffling assertion, but so calm and so clear that it creates a micro-climate in which the truth of...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Ta-Nehisi Coates, _The Beautiful Struggle: a father, two sons, and an unlikely road to manhood_

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I SO MUCH enjoyed the super-carbonated fizz of Ta-Nehisi Coates's prose in an article I read in The Nation a couple of years ago that I...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Ariana Reines, _Coeur de Lion_

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HOW I GOT a hold of this is a story in itself. Intrigued by Reines's The Cow (see LLL for January 2011) and noticing that she had a sec...
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Monday, May 23, 2011

Jennifer Egan, _A Visit from the Goon Squad_

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AMONG MY RESOLUTIONS for the remainder of May 2011 is to finish at least a few of the books I left one-half, one-third, or one-quarter read...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Olivia Manning, _The Great Fortune_

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This is the first volume of "The Balkan Trilogy," a paperback of which I picked up remaindered for $1.99 or so back in the late 19...
Monday, March 21, 2011

Nell Freudenberger, _Lucky Girls_

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THIS BOOK AND its author have collected quite a few honors: the PEN/Malamud Award (for "excellence in the art of the short story")...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, _Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses_

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MY FACULTY COLLEAGUES and I are being encouraged to read this, and being the co-operative faculty member I (sometimes -- nay, often) am, I r...