Book Digest: April 2, 2007
The Invention of Hugo Cabret; Why Speak; XS; Einstein; Bird of Another Heaven; American Food Writing; Facing Fascism; The Power of Art; Awake in the Dark; American Visa; All Fires the Fire and Other Stories
Robert Birnbaum
Sigrid Nunez
Sigrid Nunez wanted to be a dancer, and lucky for her readers, that didn't work out as planned. Nevertheless capable of some deft footwork, she explains to our man in Boston how the two pastimes are similar.
Book Digest: March 26, 2007
Edward Hopper; A Miracle of Catfish; Mishima’s Sword; Charisma; The Book of Air and Shadows; It Can Happen Here; Almost Human; The Cigarette Century; Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow; East Fifth Bliss; You Don’t Love Me Yet
Book Digest: March 19, 2007
The People Look Like Flowers at Last; Other People’s Property; Alexis de Tocqueville; The Audacity of Hope; Uncouth Nation; The God of Animals; Hurricanes and Carnivals; Giacomo Casanova; Gardens in Art; Back on the Fire; The Kitchen Sink
Book Digest: March 12, 2007
Lonely Avenue; Marc Chagall; Thomas Hardy; Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life; A Fighter’s Heart; American Spy; The Father of All Things; Mitz; Man Gone Down; The Winter of Frankie Machine; Leni Riefenstahl
Martin Amis
The Mick Jagger of British literature is out with another book slated to be a hit. A conversation about everything important under the sun: getting older, the differences between life in Uruguay and London, and the best ways to write fictional footnotes.
Book Digest: February 26, 2007
Swink (Everybody Has It Figured Out But You); Cowboy in Caracas; Fieldwork; A Bee in the Mouth; Debating Race; The Collected Poems (1956-1998); Mississippi Sissy; Their Dogs Came With Them; The Cross and Other Jewish Stories; The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog; The Goat Bridge
Book Digest: February 12, 2007
Still Water Saints; The Fabric of Night; Self Storage; Reading Legitamation Crisis in Tehran; United States vs. George Bush; A Good War is Hard to Find; African Psycho; Giraffes; The Devil Is a Gentleman; Medical Apartheid; Born in Flames; Jasper Johns
Book Digest: February 5, 2007
Jim Brown; Kockroach; The River of Lost Footsteps; Peter Dexter; The Gardens of the Dead; Epitaph for a Tramp; Fame Junkies; Toussaint L’Oueverture; Finn
Book Digest: January 22, 2007
New and Selected Poems 2006; The Wicked Son; Paula Spencer; House of Meetings; Eero Saarinen; American Fascists; The Gospel of Food; Lost City Radio; Overture; Dancing to “Almendra”; American Bloomsbury