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"I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people."
— Fiction editor Deborah Treisman talks with Alice Munro about her writing life, and her new short story collection, “Dear Life” -
"In supposedly disclosing the real stories behind women and booze, the book drives home the very stereotypes and gloom that its contributors are trying to write themselves out of, while missing out on alcohol’s essential delights. After all, the real pleasures of drinking inhabit the space between one’s lips and the glass—the moments before your next sip, when unexpected encounters and revelations can take place."
— Betsy Morais attends “a reading for a new book of essays, “Drinking Diaries,” all written by female authors and edited by Leah Odze Epstein and Caren Osten Gerszberg, who started a blog by that name in 2009: http://nyr.kr/VzgQT9(Source: newyorker.com)
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Laureate of Terror: Don DeLillo’s Prophetic Soul
“The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories” (Scribner; $24), surprisingly, is DeLillo’s first collection. In the course of his career, he has published twenty shorter fictions, so there has already been a paring down. A halving, in fact, though the book, to my eye and ear, is a faithful alternation between first- and second-echelon work—between easy-chair DeLillo and hard-chair DeLillo.
- Martin Amis reviews “The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories” and explains what we really mean when we say we love an author’s work: http://nyr.kr/tz65Ql
