Essays by Julian Barnes and Janet Malcolm in the New York Review of Books.
Book Club #4: The Late American Novel
The Full Stop Book Club is a regular feature in which Full Stop editors and guest contributors discuss a book in detail over the course of a week. Our first Book Club selection is The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, edited by Jeff Martin and The Millions‘ C. Max Magee […]
Book Club #2: The Late American Novel
The Full Stop Book Club is a regular feature in which Full Stop editors and guests discuss a book in detail over the course of a week. Our first Book Club selection is The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, edited by Jeff Martin and The Millions‘ C. Max Magee (Soft Skull Press, 2011).
Book Club: The Late American Novel
The Full Stop Book Club is a regular feature in which Full Stop editors and guest contributors discuss a book in detail over the course of a week.
A week in online reading.
“I can’t say what the effect is, if any, on people in the mass. In a way, that is not my problem: I just generate the work, and then other people decide how to use it, in whatever way seems most useful to them.”
The Shubert Sunday Night Roundup
This may be very anti-climactic, but here are some pieces I got a kick out of this week.
Two excellent essays on the Kafka trials and the re-release of Elizabeth Bishop’s complete works.
The Empty Family – Colm Tóibín
“The Empty Family may be the mature work of a master, but I didn’t believe a single word of it.”
Smelling Books [Things to do in NYC]
This lady’s new performance art piece consists of smelling every book in the MoMA Library. According to her: The goal of this personal olfactory exploration is to foster a discussion of the future of print media, the ways we read, methods of classification, and the way in which smell is entwined with memory. Her name […]