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Heart of Darkness

by Sharon Steel | June 11, 2008
Andre Dubus III's The House of Sand and Fog was probably THE saddest, most wrenching book we ever read. We were hoping his latest, The Garden of Last Days , would be similar in its delicious soul-killing-ness. But Janet Maslin doesn't think so...

On the Campaign Trail

by Sharon Steel | June 05, 2008
In the NYTBR 's Summer Reading supplement, some famous writers suggested a few books they thought the Presidential candidates ought to read in between all the flesh-pressing and promise-making . (When this ran, Hillary Clinton was still in the picture...

Miles To Go Before I Sleep, Indeed

by Sharon Steel | May 27, 2008
William Grimes wrote in the New York Times last Friday about the 2006 book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (Universe). He offers a realistic take on said list , pointing out its merits while acknowledging that any such catalog should be taken...

James Frey Scores a Rave

by Sharon Steel | May 12, 2008
Janet Maslin really, really likes James Frey's new novel, Bright Shiny Morning . She calls it a "captivating urban kaleidoscope" and goes on to suggest that this book is going to "save" Frey, or that this is how he saved himself...

The Ax and Pen of a Literary Critic

by Sharon Steel | April 28, 2008
We know that the point of this New York Times Sunday Styles piece on N+1 editor and author Keith Gessen wasn't supposed to be about the fact that he is obsessed with checking his Amazon.com ranking. Though it's nice to know that even good-looking...

Thesaurus Sluts

by Sharon Steel | April 18, 2008
The best Times lede we've seen in a long time kicks off Charles McGrath's review of Joshua Kendall's The Man Who Made Lists , which chronicles the life and times of the creator of Roget's Thesaurus. It goes like this: Sylvia Plath loved...

Unaccustomed Earth's Swift Rise

by Sharon Steel | April 15, 2008
Yesterday, we told you about Sloane Crosley's debut on the Times 's nonfiction paperback bestseller list, yet we neglected to rhapsodize about the #1 book on the hardcover fiction list . That would be Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri's...

Sloane Crosley Has The Career You Always Wanted

by Sharon Steel | April 14, 2008
Sometimes, alt-weekly dreams really do come true! Remember back in November, when we were obsessing over Sloane Crosley , Vintage/Anchor book publicist extraordinaire, who had a much-hyped , uber-blurbed book of personal essays coming out this spring...

Liz Phair Has Five Jobs and One of Them is Novelist

by Sharon Steel | April 07, 2008
Yup. Liz Phair reviewed Dean Wareham's Black Postcards : A Rock & Roll Romance in this Sunday's NYTBR . Among other things, we have learned that her mother named her Elizabeth Clark Phair because she thought it would make a good New Yorker...

He's Just Not That Into Your Library

by Sharon Steel | March 31, 2008
Did you read Rachel Donadio's NYBR back-page essay about literary dealbreakers yet ? Or her subsquent Paper Cuts blog post , in which she asked Times readers to state their own literary dealbreakers? So, what are the most common literary dealbreakers...

"The story is mine"

by Importer | March 10, 2008
Daniel Mendelsohn ( The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million ) wrote what we thought was a depressing but super-smart Op-Ed piece in the Sunday Times . He makes excellent points about the fake-memoir trend, but even more important, he explains what it...

Literary Lies: The Next Generation

by Sharon Steel | March 05, 2008
RECALLED. Everyone is all in a huff over the "Margaret Jones" scandal . Her True Life story, Love and Consequences: A Memoir of Hope and Survival , was a fraud. She is not part Native American. She was not an abused foster child living on the...

Liars, Promotions, and Profiles!

by Sharon Steel | March 04, 2008
Sloane Crosley: The new Dorothy Parker, some say -- or just our new Imaginary Friend Kelefa Sanneh, our favorite New York Times pop music critic, is going to be a staff writer at The New Yorker ! Now he and the S.F.J. can totally duke it out over the...

Modern Love Breeds Book Deals

by Sharon Steel | February 11, 2008
We realized long ago that we were not alone in the fact that we loved to hate Modern Love , a New York Times Sunday Style column equal to a 1,700-word cringe-fest. In this week's New York Observer , Doree Shafrir expertly dissects the column and its...

Monday Round-Up: Spilled Milk

by Sharon Steel | February 04, 2008
James Frey is serious about his come-back, so much so that he's jazzing up his forthcoming novel, Bright Shiny Morning , with jacket art by his friend Richard Prince. He's also thinking of going Ira Glass on us, with a book tour that the New York...

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