I found these books and these authors because I needed their voices, although I don’t know that I’ve ever articulated that to myself before. I needed to see women writing other women, women on the page who were strong, thoughtful, harrowingly flawed and courageous in facing and exploring their own selves – if a little batty.
In the first of a trilogy of essays about reading Turkish literature in Istanbul, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim takes Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s novel A MIND AT PEACE as her travel guide through the city.
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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 #3: 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 (Soft Skull Press, 2011).
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.
The week’s best online fiction, with links and recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
On Escapism: Nicholas Nickleby
Like today’s television-watchers, who schedule activities around their favorite shows, the nineteenth-century’s novel-readers no doubt experienced a sense of delayed gratification and of belonging to an excited group of followers.
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