‘Pointless, sporadic and free’
Rob Walker’s book, published pre-Katrina, sheds new light on the Big Easy.
In 2000, Rob Walker, the “Consumed” columnist for New York Times Magazine, moved to New Orleans, and for the next three years wrote a series of vignettes, intended for subscribers to his Web site, that would eventually become “Letters from [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Interview: Q&A with “Consumed” columnist Rob Walker
Posted in Interviews on January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Book Review: “Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles”
Posted in Book Reviews on January 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When yogis strike
Debut novel about renegade psychics is part James Bond, part ‘Fight Club’
“Shelby is a slut. She is also my wife. And that presents certain problems.”
Those are the first three sentences of “Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles,” a comedy by Will Clarke. Vulgar, shocking, overblown and witty, they pretty much capture the spirit [...]
Book Review: Nigel Spivey’s “Songs on Bronze”
Posted in Book Reviews on January 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A fresh look at old tales
Nigel Spivey’s ‘Songs on Bronze’ revives the Greek myths.
One of the cornerstones of any college survey course is the study of classical literature. The ancient Greeks and Romans produced prose and poetry that both shaped and influenced the history of Western civilization and whose body of ideas still holds [...]
Book Review: Samuel G. Freedman’s “Who She Was: My Search for My Mother’s Life”
Posted in Book Reviews on January 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Son discovers mother had a life
Author Samuel G. Freedman explores the truth of who his mother really was.
When John Berendt called his book, “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” a “nonfiction novel,” he became a spokesman for an entire class of writers who favor, in Berendt’s words, “rounding the corners to make [...]
Book Review: Nicholas Sparks’ “True Believer”
Posted in Book Reviews on January 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Review of Nicholas Sparks’ “True Believer”
If you took the sentiment behind any Hallmark card, especially those written for Valentine’s Day, and expanded it into a 322-page novel, you’d have something like Nicholas Sparks’ new book, “True Believer.”
Jeremy Marsh, the book’s protagonist, believes in only one thing – science. If he can’t prove it, he [...]
