January 2011
LHB Weekly Wrap-Up: January 30th →
Shorties (Sufjan Stevens, Literary Profiling, and... →
Book Notes - Thaisa Frank ("Heidegger's Glasses") →
Online "Best Books of 2010" Lists Update - January... →
Atomic Books Comics Preview - January 26, 2011 →
Interview: Meredith Cole, author of Posed for... →
Agatha Donkar, a photographer and writer based in Chapel Hill, NC, has recently been delving into the photography-themed mysteries of Meredith Cole, a mystery writer based in…
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - January... →
The philosophical novel? →
Can a novelist write philosophically? Even some of those considered among the most philosophical have “answered with an emphatic no.” See also Percy & Kierkegaard.
Shorties (Patti Smith, James Joyce, and more) →
R.I.P. Reynolds Price →
“Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn’t trade my life for the world.” — Reynolds Price (February 1, 1933 – January 20, 2011)
Largehearted Lit with Marcy Dermansky, Mark... →
Online "Best Books of 2010" Lists Update - January... →
Review: The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly →
Laura Ellen Scott last appeared on this site interviewing thriller writer Sophie Hannah. Here, she reviews the debut novel by Erin Kelly, a writer working in a similar vein. And speaking…
A talk with Misha Angrist, whose genome is online →
My friend Misha Angrist, a former geneticist and the author of Here is a Human Being At the Dawn of Personal Genomics, answers some of my questions about DNA research at The Awl.
Holy crap, Misha, you’re making your entire genome public! Are you nervous?
This Week's Interesting Music Releases - January... →
Giving grief its own corner →
Talking to Grief
Ah, grief, I should not treat you
like a homeless dog
who comes to the back door
for a crust, for a meatless bone.
I should trust you.
I should coax you
into the…
LHB Weekly Wrap-Up: January 9th →
51 Down, 1 To Go "Culinary Ephemera: An... →
"Approval Is Like Heroin" --Nina Paley →
Book Notes - Sean Manning ("The Things That Need... →
Michael Hearst Interviews Mary Roach →
Book Notes - Mike Young ("Look! Look! Feathers") →
Atomic Books Comics Preview - January 5, 2011 →
Readings — and stripping — for Gypsy Rose Lee’s... →
Celebrate Gypsy Rose Lee’s 100th birthday with readings, gossip, and burlesque, and Lee biographer/occasional stripteaser Karen Abbott at the NYPL this Saturday, January 8.
Try It Before You Buy It - January 4, 2011 Music... →
Recommendations: Overlooked and Overlauded →
I was pleased to be asked to contribute a couple of suggestions to AARP’s end-of-year round-up of 2010 books. The theme is “Overlooked and Overlauded,” and I had two suggestions for the former of…
Writing as compensation for the things we don’t do →
Geoff Dyer’s Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It coasts into and out of asides about the consolations and difficulties of writing, about the many books he started, or thought…
Daily Downloads (MGMT, Ryan Adams, and more) →
Shorties (The Streets, Literary Resolutions, and... →
Daily Downloads (Low, Grace Potter, and more) →
Shorties (Broken Bells, Why Criticism Matters, and... →