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Updated L.A. readings calendar ... 13 Jul 2013 | 06:36 am
Click on through and check out the updated listing of L.A. readings, including Nicholson Baker, Aimee Bender, Cathleen Schine and more!
Andrew Sean Greer reads at Vroman's tonight 11 Jul 2013 | 10:38 pm
The only thing that could keep me away from Andrew Sean Greer's Pasadena reading this evening is teaching, and unfortunately I have a class tonight. But otherwise I would make the trek for Greer's on...
First Trailer for "The Sea" 11 Jul 2013 | 10:18 pm
Many thanks to Keith Arsenault who knows my Banville obsession all too well and alerted me to the first trailer for the forthcoming adaptation of John Banville's Booker-prize winning "The Sea" ...
A Twitter Project: Unpacking the Library 29 Jun 2013 | 06:01 am
Tonight I officially begin unpacking my library yet again. Along the way, I thought I might grab some select titles and tweet the opening sentence or 140 characters of the opening sentence, whichever...
Banville's marginalia (vs. my own) 19 May 2013 | 11:32 pm
I am forever urging my students to mark up their books, to scribble, deface and decode. It's only by interacting with the books we admire at the sentence level that writers can begin to unlock the sec...
A TEV Facelift 15 May 2013 | 02:46 am
I'm working at classing up the joint a little bit, streamlining, that sort of thing. A grand revival is being planned.
REVIEW: MASTERMIND 22 Feb 2013 | 04:07 am
My review of Maria Konnikov's MASTERMIND: HOW TO THINK LIKE SHERLOCK HOLMES went live over at the Barnes and Noble Review while I was away for the Jerusalem International Book Fair: "You have been in ...
Readings list update 12 Jan 2013 | 07:37 am
I've updated the Worthy Readings sidebar, so if you're reading this via RSS or email, please do click on through and check out Marisa Silver, Luis Alberto Urrea and more!
Five authors to watch in 2013 12 Jan 2013 | 07:12 am
The Telegraph looks at five young authors to watch in 2013. TEV favorite Sheila Heti is on the list, but I'm especially intrigued by Owen Martell's novel Intermission: A slim, rigourously nuanced book...
"My parents were born old" - John Banville on parenthood & dotage 7 Jan 2013 | 10:28 pm
In a long and uncharacterstically personal essay in the Daily Mail, John Banville reflects on old age - his own and his parents': Thinking back on the lives of one's parents and making comparisons wit...
