38 days ago by Kate Dunn

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them b ...

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39 days ago by kberke

This is another Zuckerman book. It feels like a prequel in the sense that, at least so far, Zuckerman is well beneath the age he had achieved in the Zuckerman book that preceded this one— American Pastoral. In Married he’s perhaps 13 or 14, living in New Jersey circa 1948-1950 and more under the inf ...

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40 days ago by Ann L.M. Barrett

"The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything." So says, Milan Kundera in an interview with Philip Roth in Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and I couldn't agree more. The converse of this is that those of us who admit our lack of knowledge are "smart." Taking this one ...

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41 days ago by Wade Garrett

1) Finish Roberto Bolano's 2666 - I may have to backtrack a little bit to refresh my memory about some of the characters. This novel is long, and not a quick read, but the spiffy three-volume set I picked up at a library sale should make it easier than the 900-page behemoth I lugged to the office an ...

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42 days ago by SilverSeason

John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences. I had thought I was pretty good with numbers, but Paulos would like to get me onto a higher plane with logarithms and probability. His ideas are worthwhile and most of his complaints are valid, but he is a bit of a scold. L ...

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42 days ago by Isaias Edson Sidney

[...] aos vinte e três anos, ele era para todos nós a autoridade mais reverenciada e mais exemplar que conhecíamos, um jovem com convicções, simpático, cortês, justo, zeloso, estável, gentil, vigoroso, muscular – ao mesmo tempo líder e companheiro. E uma figura ainda mais gloriosa naquela tarde em f ...

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42 days ago by Eduardo Andrade

Um decano da Faculdade de Athenas, nos Estados Unidos, depois de dedicar a sua vida ao ensino, é acusado de racismo por se referir a dois alunos, que nunca apareceram na classe, como spooks. A história deste professor de setenta e dois anos teria sido diferente se os alunos citados não fossem negros ...

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42 days ago by jtatham

Of all the ways to write about America at the dawn of the 21 st century, this is, undoubtedly, the most mediocre. The phrase “swinging for the fences” is not apt to this book. Like the dull lives of the middle-class characters it details, exhaustively, over 600 pages, there is very little to make th ...

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43 days ago by Una que yo me sé

Asomo un rato por aquí para decir algo obvio, dada mi desaparición absoluta de éste medio: termina un año complicado. Quizá el año más duro que me ha tocado vivir hasta ahora desde cualquier punto de vista en el que se me ocurra analizarlo (cosa que, por otro lado, no me atrevo a hacer). El breve ba ...

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45 days ago by pepe

Este es el título de la última novela de Philip Roth (yo la he leído en la edición de Círculo de lectores, pero debe de haber otra edición). Como todos sabemos, némesis era la diosa de la justicia retributiva, de la venganza, en la mitología griega. La verdad es que el título desconcierta un poco po ...

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