Hitchens on Updike
If you subscribe to the Atlantic, can you send me the text of Christopher Hitchens’s review of Updike’s new novel? I’m very curious what he makes of it.
Update: Thanks to the readers who’ve sent it to me. I appreciate it.
If you subscribe to the Atlantic, can you send me the text of Christopher Hitchens’s review of Updike’s new novel? I’m very curious what he makes of it.
Update: Thanks to the readers who’ve sent it to me. I appreciate it.
Peter Carey’s new novel, Theft, has caused a bit of a stir: The author’s ex-wife is apparently upset because she believes that the character of the “alimony whore” is based on her, and she doesn’t think literature should be used to “settle scores.” Over at TEV, Mark Sarvas offers his take on the novel.
The latest issue of the New Yorker features a short story by Jhumpa Lahiri: “Once in a Lifetime.”
I just found out that Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits is a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Award from Binghamton University.
I was very upset to hear about the passing of Pramoedya Ananda Toer this weekend. He will be missed.