Showing posts with label new york. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new york. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

The Crack-Up with Other Pieces and Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I doubt that F. Scott Fitzgerald intended that The Crack-Up with Other Pieces and Stories should ever be published, let alone read as a sing...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

La Ciudad de las Bestias (The City of Beasts) by Isabel Allende

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  La Ciudad de las Bestias (The City of Beasts) is a novel by Isabel Allende. I read it in Spanish, without consulting reviews or doing any ...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Like Life – the catalogue by Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar

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Like Life was a 2018 sculpture exhibition at New York's Met Breuer Museum. Its catalogue of the same name not only illustrates many of t...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

4-3-2-1 by Paul Auster

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4-3-2-1 in not one book. It is four. And they are in order, 4-3-2-1. Its title, incidentally, could not be 1-2-3-4 for reasons the reader w...
Friday, December 10, 2010

The Telling by Miranda Seymour

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The Telling by Miranda Seymour is the life story, life confessions perhaps, of Nancy Parker. She is living out her retirement in a satisfact...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

New York Days, New York Nights by Stephen Brook

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I have just done another tour of New York. It’s a city whose streets I have walked, whose life I have encountered, whose people I have known...
Saturday, July 12, 2008

The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai

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The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai is a magnificent, impressive novel that ultimately is disappointing. As a process, the book is almost...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Willie The Actor by David Barry

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At one level Willie The Actor by David Barry is a crime novel in which a ruthless criminal commits bank robberies. On another it achieves th...