Claire | January 5, 2012
Excerpt from a post I wrote for the blog of UCLA’s literary journal once upon a time. Pondering how college and adulthood was changing my relationship to reading. The first half of the post was rough and I now shudder over the title, but this part still holds up I think. ________ The frenetic pace [...]
Claire | July 3, 2011
Robin McKinley is one of the more successful fantasy authors alive today, but she’s sometimes dismissed as a children’s writer. To me, the point is rather moot since her books are deliciously complex and satisfying, less in language than in emotional richness and world-building. If I were to describe her, I’d say she has the [...]
Claire | May 14, 2011
via Casual Poet
Claire | March 29, 2011
via The Millions: The shortlist for the 2011 Best Translated Book Award has been announced. “The Best Translated Book Awards launched in 2007 as a way of bringing attention to great works of international literature. Original translations (no reprints or retranslations) published between December 2009 and November 2010 are eligible for this year’s award. Quality [...]
Claire | March 22, 2011
The Longlist for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction was recently announced. The Orange Prize is for a novel written by a woman and is one of Britain’s biggest book awards. Below is the list. London, 16 March 2011: The Orange Prize for Fiction, the UK’s only annual book award for fiction written by a [...]
Claire | March 11, 2011
The shortlist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK’s top prize for science fiction and fantasy, has just been announced. The six shortlisted books are: • Zoo City – Lauren Beukes (Angry Robot) • The Dervish House – Ian McDonald (Gollancz) • Monsters of Men – Patrick Ness (Walker Books) • Generosity – Richard [...]
Claire | January 17, 2011
Claire | December 30, 2010
I would kill for a copy of this.The B&N Review describes it here
Claire | August 19, 2010
“They were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand” -All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Claire | August 19, 2010
To categorize Cormac MCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses as primarily a “literary” novel seems to me to be doing it a disservice, because what it really is, and what it functions best as, is a Western with a literary bite. All the trademarks of the traditional Western novel are here (and beautifully so) – the [...]
