Tag: writers roundtable
member name: Mike C.
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December 02, 2008 02:34 PM EST --
I was listening to a hack right wing talk show host bloviating about Sarah Palin saving the Republican Party in Georgia the other day and as I listened something occurred to me that explains a lot of . . .
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November 19, 2007 05:42 PM EST --
Roth does another study of near-death from his own perspective as an older writer and this one is even more chilling than the last venture into the subject, “Everyman.”Nathan Zuckerman has . . .
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January 18, 2009 09:06 AM EST --
I note that “Sully” the Pilot has almost 150,000 fans on Facebook. He merits accolades and fans but does he deserve or should he expect lionization? Sure, he should. Almost anyone who is not already a . . .
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July 06, 2008 05:25 PM EDT --
This is a very sad funny little novel. It is also Jonathan Miles' first after a career as a sports and mystery writer and essayist. Its structure is very strange, but understandable: Bennie Ford is . . .
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February 14, 2009 05:21 PM EST --
I admit at the start a distaste for the rush of “time travel” works that have flooded all media lately. It seems to me that “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” remains the most successful . . .
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December 16, 2007 10:10 AM EST --
I admit to an almost irrational weakness for the novels of Joyce Carol Oates. Somehow, with very rare exceptions, she draws me into the world between her covers and keeps me there until I reluctantly . . .
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December 21, 2007 10:58 AM EST --
I have not read Cormac McCarthy before, primarily because I am not generally a fan of post-Armageddon formats, but seeing "No Country for Old Men" made me curious and I picked up "The Road." . . .
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April 07, 2008 02:54 PM EDT --
Tim Winton is flat out brilliant. I met and interviewed him years ago in Boston and we talked for hours about his favorite settings, characters, life-view and the place of Western Australia in both . . .
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June 17, 2008 11:31 AM EDT --
Tobias Wolff writes taut short stories that often select a moment in a person's life, define the moment and go as deep as the moment will allow, then move on. Or he establishes a small cast of characters, . . .
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October 24, 2008 09:27 AM EDT --
This is an extremely difficult book to read at this time in or political lives. It is a novel but it is also a thinly disguised version of the life of Laura Bush. Some of the references and parallels make . . .
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November 14, 2007 12:06 PM EST --
I was irritated with Perotta’s hit “Little Children” andinfuriated by this work. With the same kind of cast: woman adrift, manguilt-ridden and confused, children to manipulate, etc. . . .
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December 15, 2008 02:17 PM EST --
Philip Roth has of late been concentrating on aging and death. Everyman and Exit Ghost were about the aging and death of old men. While musing about death and dying and disease is not unusual for . . .
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January 02, 2009 09:16 AM EST --
Yeah, I know that a college setting is perfect for satire of all sorts of things: you have venerable buildings housing hormone-loaded late teens, the most freedom any of them will ever have again in their . . .
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February 26, 2009 10:00 AM EST --
Peter Carey is a prolific and always interesting author with a wide range of styles and interests. In his most recent novel, “His Illegal Self,” Carey takes us back to the 70s—the days of the hippies, . . .
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March 10, 2009 02:47 PM EDT --
You can have your vampires and your blow-‘em-up Bournes and other ultimata. If you want real scary fiction, go to Eastern Europe, most particularly Kafka and now Ferenc Karinthy, a native Hungarian. Back . . .
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April 29, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
What a crushing disappointment this was! As a former musician and teacher at the college level, I read about this novel in reviews and thought it interesting: an exploration of musical skills and love . . .
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June 04, 2009 03:35 PM EDT --
It seems only days ago that I finished a Laura Lippman mystery set in Baltimore. Her next book I just finished and it wasn’t a mystery in the traditional sense. Life Sentences is a mystery on . . .
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July 30, 2009 08:59 PM EDT --
The story of Stieg Larsson, Swedish journalist and novelist, is by now well known to those who have read his first novel, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Shortly after turning in the manuscripts . . .
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November 24, 2007 10:22 AM EST --
I read a lot but I don’t think I’m the most perceptive or sensitive of readers. Still, I found myself able to predict just about every plot turn in this banal novel. It is essentially a TV . . .
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November 28, 2007 10:29 AM EST --
Ann Patchett’s best-seller, “Bel Canto,” was set in theconfined space of an embassy. Her newest, “Run,” is set in the confined spaceof a Boston neighborhood and the confined . . .
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