For your surfing pleasure
An almost summer round-up:
- Galley Cat rounds up a variety of summer reading lists.
- The AJC also has a summer reading list – presented as a slideshow (much less reading involved) – and the reviews are actually from the Washingtom Post. But hey, it’s multimedia! Who needs a books editor?
- When I am in charge of the publishing industry, all book release events will be just like this one.
- LA Weekly gives some love to McSweeney’s, makers of the finest hand-crafted books around.
- The New Yorker gives a positive (but brief) review of James Meek’s We are Now Beginning Our Descent, even though “the characters and the setup may be a little overdrawn.” My copy is still available to whoever wants it.
May 30, 2008 9:06 am 3 Comments
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By Tim, May 30, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
I have a taker on Meek book.
By Dan, June 1, 2008 @ 8:29 am
Thanks for link to the McSweeney’s story. Bowl of Cherries and Here They Come were two of my favorite books last year. And I eagerly await each Quarterly Concern not just for the great short stories, but to figure out what they’re doing with the design.
By Russ, June 1, 2008 @ 1:04 pm
speaking of “who needs a book editor”, the questions posed to Patti Henry, a really thoughtful and intelligent writer who has been a backbone of the female, southern low-country lit movement for quite some time now, was kinda…pathetic. whoever was assigned that story obviously thought questions like “um, well, so, you write books…do you like pens or pencils?” would be sufficient, when, seriously, at least 75% of the folks who would read the sunday arts and books section in the ajc are, at the very LEAST, MILDLY familiar with patti henry, what she’s done and who she is. blah