Loads of Learned Lumber
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Helen Macdonald, _H Is for Hawk_
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A FINE BOOK, multiply-honored last year, and quite deservingly. Three main strands. In one, MacDonald, a falconer (also "writer, illu...
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Lucy Ives, _Nineties: a story with no moral_
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SOMEWHAT COINCIDENTALLY, I read the first half of this in a club, waiting for a band that first made their mark in the 1990s, the Brian Jone...
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Hannah Tinti, _The Good Thief_
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REN IS AN orphan living in a Catholic orphanage somewhere in New England in what seems like the 19th century. His left hand is missing, and...
Friday, May 27, 2016
Elena Ferrante, _My Brilliant Friend_
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IF YOU HAPPEN to be looking for someone to splash cold water on this recent enthusiasm, you will have to keep looking. I was as captivated ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Why no Lionel Trilling biography?
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ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH Edward Mendelson's Moral Agents , which is stone brilliant, and about which I expect to be writing shortly, but Me...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Karl-Ove Knausgaard, _My Struggle, Book Two: A Man in Love_
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I LIKED THIS one even better than I did the first one. They can't keep getting better--eventually the project will hit its La Prisonniér...
Monday, May 23, 2016
Shane McCrae, _The Animal Too Big to Kill_
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McCRAE'S FOURTH BOOK, but the first I have read, and I read it rather rapidly, as he was in town for a reading. I may have missed some n...
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