17
May
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15
May
Chris Wiegand talks to the creators of two very dissimilar detectives, both at work in Istanbul’s meanest streets.
Crime fiction aficionados know Istanbul as the beat of Cetin Ikmen, the shabby, middle-aged Turkish cop created by English novelist Barbara Nadel. A former actress who lives in the Pennines and was raised in London’s East End, her [...]
4
Mar
TOKYO %26mdash; Until recently, cellphone novels %26mdash; composed on phone keypads by young women wielding dexterous thumbs and read by fans on their tiny screens %26mdash; had been dismissed in Japan as a subgenre unworthy of the country that gave the world its first novel, “The Tale of Genji,” a millennium ago.
Then, in December, [...]
15
Feb
MIAMI %26mdash; So this time the guy with the white suits and dazzling spats is wading through the cultural intersections of Miami. Already, Tom Wolfe has visited several times as tourist, sponge, anthropologist and journalist. Always journalist.
At 76, the best-selling author is writing a novel about Miami, peering through his vintage magnifying glass at [...]
24
Dec
Media claiming General Petraeus has ‘flagging spirits’ is ‘dogged by detractors’
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryIn a report that is supposed to be about General David Petraeus and his efforts to pacify Iraq by commanding the forces in president Bush’s Iraq surge, The New York Times speculates instead about his state of mind and generally tries to tear him down. Times writer John Burns seems to be putting in a [...]
19
Dec
Controversy has followed “Belle de Jour” - supposedly the pseudonym of a high-class sex worker - from the launch of her prize-winning blog in 2003, to the publication of a couple of books, and now to a television drama. First of all, was Belle, who claimed to be a twentysomething university-educated prostitute, for real? There [...]
19
Dec
Mich%26egrave;le Roberts is sitting on a sofa, her hands flying about like birds. She’s drawing in the air the structure of her novel Flesh and Blood (1994), the book she’s most proud of and which is, sadly, out of print. “It pulls together like a zip,” she says, explaining how this symbolic tale of mother-daughter [...]
19
Dec
Like Something Flying Backwards. New and Selected Poems
by CD Wright
303pp, Bloodaxe, %26pound;12″Poetry is like food, remarked one of my first teachers, freeing me to dislike Rocky Mountain oysters and Robert Lowell. The menu is vast, the list of things I don’t want in my mouth relatively short,” observes CD Wright in Cooling Time, the most [...]
17
Dec
“Writing a novel is a voyage of discovery,” said Neil Gaiman, who has written piles of them (including “American Gods,” “Anansi Boys,” and “Neverwhere”) and sold millions.
But turning a novel into a film is like “running a very sharp-edged maze leading through a minefield, with people shooting at you, in a freezing downpour, having no [...]
14
Dec
Media claiming General Petraeus has ‘flagging spirits’ is ‘dogged by detractors’
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryIn a report that is supposed to be about General David Petraeus and his efforts to pacify Iraq by commanding the forces in president Bush’s Iraq surge, The New York Times speculates instead about his state of mind and generally tries to tear him down. Times writer John Burns seems to be putting in a [...]
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