Reading the World 2008: The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Following on yesterday’s post, here’s the second round-up of this year’s twenty-five Reading the World titles. Since The Post-Office Girl was reviewed in today’s NY Sun by Eric Ormsby it seems like the perfect book to feature next. Stefan Zweig was born in 1881 into a wealthy and privileged ...
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Let Us Now Praise the New York Sun
It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of the New York Sun “Arts+” section and most of the reviewers who write for it. (Especially Ben Lytal, who, in my opinion, has the sweetest gig in all book reviewing.) Since the Sun has yet to penetrate the Rochester market, we usually resort to reading this online. ...
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A Great Day for Readers of the Sun
Thanks to the Literary Saloon for pointing out the New York Sun‘s new book review archive. Probably a better way to design the navigation for this, but as of now it’s sortable by book title and author, along with review title and reviewer. Hopefully this will help clue more people into the fact that the Sun ...
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Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil
Benjamin Ivry has a very interesting piece in today’s New York Sun on the new translation of Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil: “Growth of the Soil,” one of these later works, tells of a peasant, Isak, and his harelipped wife Inger, who strangles her infant daughter after she is born with her own ...
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More Love for the NY Sun
I completely agree with the Literary Saloon, the New York Sun is very impressive in its books coverage. Really. I don’t know who reads it, but if you’re interested in reviews of interesting fiction, the Sun is one of the best places to look. ...
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Metafiction from Sweden
I feel like I’m pretty knowledgeable about international authors, but I have to admit that I’ve never heard of Swedish author Klas Östergren, whose latest novel is reviewed in today’s New York Sun: Klas Östergren is hailed as one of Sweden’s most important living writers. Swedish critics have ...
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Iranian Author Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Reviewed in the Sun
The only other place that I’ve come across a reference to Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s Missing Soluch was in the Literary Saloon where Orthofer commented on how it’s gotten basically no attention. Thankfully, Ben Lytal of the New York Sun somewhat rectified the situation. The book sounds pretty interesting in ...
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