Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Tribute to Rootlessness
On April 3, one day before Roger Ebert died, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala passed away from illness at the age of 85. …
Tag Archives: Writers
Forget About Tiger Mothering, Try Inspirational Parenting
One of the most memorable lines in last week’s Academy Awards is Tom Hooper’s: “The moral of the story is: …
Reading Snow Country in Snow Country
The first refers to the 1968 Japanese Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s (川端 康成 1899-1972) seminal novel Snow Country (雪鄉); the …
Never Let Me Go: Book and Movie
This post is to meet two commitments: Bellezza’s Japanese Literature Challenge 4 and long due, Ready When You Are, CB’s …
Paris: The Latin Quarter
Solution to Arti’s Cryptic Challenge #3: Paris It was pure serendipity that I’d picked a hotel right in The Latin …
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!
Thanks to Bellezza’s Japanese Literature Challenge 4, I have the chance to explore the intricate world of Kenzaburo Oe (pronounced ‘oh-ay’, 大江 …
Top 20 Under 40
The New Yorker has released the anticipated list of top 20 fiction writers under 40, kicking off their summer fiction …
Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
It has been nine years since Yann Martel’s second novel The Life of Pi first published. Its winning the Booker …
A Midsummer Day’s Dream
It was pure serendipity. Finding out there would be an interview with Michael Ondaatje at the Banff Summer Arts Festival …
Beach Reads and Summer Reading 2008
It’s that time of the year when you let it all hang loose and not care about whether what you’re …
Chesterton Quotes
I just couldn’t resist. Even though I posted a link to GKC Quotes in my last entry, I’m compelled to …
To G. K. Chesterton: Happy 134th Birthday
Well, I miss it by a day, but I don’t think he’d mind. To celebrate the birthday of the gifted …
