by ta | Oct 16, 2007 | Fiction
“Though “Tree of Smoke” is hobbled by a plot that starts and stops and lurches wildly about, it’s a powerful story about the American experience in Vietnam, with unsettling echoes of the current American experience in Iraq. It is a story about bad intelligence...
by ta | Oct 14, 2007 | Fiction
This month we’ve picked three books from Marie’s list of favorites in which a minor character becomes the focus of the story. The Red Tent~Anita Diamant “The story of Dinah, a tragic character from the Bible whose great love, a prince, is killed by...
by ta | Oct 11, 2007 | Book Awards
Doris Lessing won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in Iran and raised in what is now Zimbabwe, Lessing is only the 11th woman to receive the Literature Nobel. Read more in the New York Times. Links to past winners of the Literature Prize More 2007...
by ta | Oct 10, 2007 | Book Awards
The National Book Award finalists were announced today. Click here for more.
by ta | Sep 24, 2007 | Fiction
“Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the fuku –...
