May
24
1001 books
May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Another aggravating list has been created for us to debate, re: this interesting article in the New York Times.
The article references this list, which suppose is roughly the correct 1001 books, despite the last date of update being two years ago. I mistakenly started counting and it took me awhile, because I had to fact-check [...]
Mar
11
Memoir versus novel
March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment
Yet again we have a [if you ask me, spectacularly trashy] story about a woman who sold her book to a publishing house claiming that it was a memoir, and they discovered that in fact it was a complete fake after only a few reviews went out.
“I thought it was my opportunity to put a [...]
Jun
27
Memoir season
June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I’m just about finished with the new Saul Raisin memoir, Tour de Life. I wanted to read it firstly because I reviewed an earlier book by this author (The Race), and was very interested to read about this young cyclist’s brain injury, having paid witness to a pretty severe brain injury in recent months. (Not [...]
