The Beguiling specialty bookstore is proud to present two great graphic novel events this June, appealing to the vast breadth of graphic novel aficionados in the city of Toronto! The first event features acclaimed Norwegian cartoonist JASON–currently serializing his newest work in The New York Times Magazine–as he comes to Toronto to launch his new [...]
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Jun
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Mar
March 6, 2008 | I should have felt grief at the news of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s death last week. Instead I recognized in myself only confusing relief. He was a great champion for the innovative novel, so in a way I owe him: I’m a novelist, and while I would be loath to call myself avant-garde, [...]
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Mar
Zadie Smith might be best known as the audaciously skilled young author of “White Teeth” and “On Beauty,” but she claims her gifts lie elsewhere. “I think I’m a pretty talented writer,” she once told the poet Robert Hass, “but I’m a great reader.”
Judging by “The Book of Other People,” an anthology of stories [...]
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Feb
SCIENCE FICTION
My creative-writing professor at Old Dominion University once claimed that there was no such thing as a perfect novel . . . except for %26quot;The Great Gatsby.%26quot; I agree with the first clause of the statement. But I must add a caveat that is also, perhaps, the greatest commandment in the realm of [...]
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Jan
Unlike many if not most Nobel laureates in literature, J.M. Coetzee seldom disappoints. A South African by birth, he now lives in Australia, having done time in the U.K and in Chicago, but he slips in and out of cultures and languages with an ease that’s enviable, and his books of fiction and memoir come [...]
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Jan
Otto Penzler, mystery-book expert, has his own puzzle to solve. He’s compiling an anthology of espionage stories, but it’s a struggle commissioning authors.
“I’m having a devil of a time. Most espionage writers don’t write short stories, so I’m doing a lot of arm-twisting, trying to get them to do it,” he said.
Usually, just [...]
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Jan
Editor’s Choice Signed, Mata Hari, by Jannick Murphy, $23.99. Was she or was she not a victim of time and circumstance? Did she really deserve to be executed as a spy? In the end all that matters is that Murphy has fashioned a mesmerizing novel that reimagines the life of one of the most [...]
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Dec
What a shame that Mr. Brodhead came to Duke based on the notion that he was a great scholar.
“Revenge is mine,” saith the Lord.” Those are good words by which to live. But I doubt that the Lord would classify rebutting a falsehood and rebuking the telling of the falsehood as solely for the Lord [...]
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Dec
Author Norman Mailer, who penned ‘The Naked and the Dead,’ dead at age 84
Posted by admin Published in Romance NovelNEW YORK %26#8212; Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country’s literary conscience and provocateur with such books as “The Naked and the Dead” and “The Executioner’s Song” died Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
Mailer died of acute renal failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. [...]
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Dec
“Just Beyond the Clouds” by Karen Kingsbury (Center Streer, $14.99). A new novel by the bestselling Christian-fiction author, about a grieving widower who is reluctant to let his Down syndrome brother try living on his own. Kingsbury lives in Vancouver, Wash.
“Making Music and Enriching Lives: A Guide for all Music Teachers” by Bonnie Blanchard [...]
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