Archive for November, 2008

Good Reads

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Just out today, a new novel by Christopher Barzak, The Love We Share without Knowing. I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of this book, and, though I’ve never met the author in my life, this was an easy book to blurb: From the frantic streets of Tokyo to the surreal silence of [...]

Waverly Street

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Robert Owen took this wonderful photograph of Waverly Street for his YEAR OF FOG photo set.
You can view all of Owens’s entire project, in which the photographer/sea captain captures the places that appear in The Year of Fog, here.

New from Nabokov

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Lolita fans and Ada, or Ardor aficionados, take heart: Publishers Lunch reports on an article for The Independent in which the beloved literary master’s son, Dmitri Nabokov, promises that his father’s unfinished novel, THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA, will be published after all.
It was written on 138 index cards by the Russian-American author as he [...]

Michaela Joy Garecht–20th Anniversary of Kidnapping

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the kidnapping of Michaela Joy Garecht, who was abducted on November 19, 1988, at the age of nine. Read Michaela’s story on the myspace page maintained by her mother, Sharon Murch, here.
Michaela was kidnapped when she and a friend went three blocks to our neighborhood market one sunny [...]

Where Were You The Night Of…

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

On November 4th, everyone I met at the Crimson Bar at the SoHo Hotel in London wanted to know what I was doing at the Crimson Bar at the SoHo Hotel in London, when, hello, history was being made in the U.S. I replied sheepishly that I’d voted early for Obama by mail, a) being [...]

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