Recently, I went to a reading given by San Jose State University’s Center for Literary Arts of Early Days in the Range of Light: Encounters with Legendary Mountaineers by Daniel Arnold. Dan graduated the same semester I did from the university’s creative writing program, so I was really excited to see the success of my grad [...]
 She also writes "Life in Comics," a monthly column for Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and collaborates on "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," a comics column on Robot 6, with her husband, artist Brian Belew. Portrait by Brian Belew. |
I am reading When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe, a novel set in the Japanese-occupied Philippines during World War II. I was interested in it when it came out, but I heard an interview with Holthe in which she describe One Hundred Years of Solitude as “boring” and it soured me on her. (Yes, [...] Francine Prose has written a new book about Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, claiming her as a literary genius and exploring how she actively was revising her journal to prepare it for publication after the war. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Prose says something that made me smile: [...] Henceforth the memory of Leon was the centre of her boredom; it burnt there more brightly than the fire travellers have left on the snow of a Russian steppe. She sprang towards him, she pressed against him, she stirred carefully the dying embers, sought all around her anything that could revive it; and the most distant [...] I’ve been reading Gabriel García Márquez’s memoir Living to Tell the Tale for months now, and I’m enjoying the feeling of being leisurely. Some books you tear through because you become so engrossed in the action and the characters; others you savor. García Márquez’s books have always fallen in the latter category for me. They’re written [...] |
 Paris by Andi Watson, Simon Gane  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: The Florida Edition (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne, Joan New, Melvyn New  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  Zombies Calling by Faith Erin Hicks  Put The Book Back On The Shelf: A Belle And Sebastian Anthology by Image Comics, Jamie S. Rich, Marc Ellerby, Jennifer De Guzman, Brian Belew, Mark Andrew Smith  Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut  Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood  Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie |
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