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Tag Archives: New York Times
Women in Flight
Connie May Fowler talks about her most recent book, Before Women Had Wings, the powerful and affecting story of Avocet Abigail Jackson, her adolescence, her family’s broken lives, her dreams and uncertainties. There is no denying the depth of Fowler’s talent and breadth of her imagination, says The New York Times Book Review. Jane Mendelsohn talks about her new novel, I Was Amelia Earhart, which brilliantly evokes in fact and fancy the fate of the celebrated aviatrix and her navigator when they disappeared off the coast of New Guinea in 1937.
Writing God’s Life
Jack Miles provides an overview of his new book, God: A Biography, which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for biography. In it, he contemplates the life of the Divinity as expressed through a variety of epic roles, from creator to destroyer to friend of the family. The result, according to The New York Times, is a scintillating work of literary scholarship that will forever color, if not downright alter, our perception of the Bible as a work of art.
The Information
British literary bad boy Martin Amis reads from and talks about his latest novel, The Information, a searing and satiric send-up of envy and angst in British publishing and pop culture. The New York Times calls Amis’s new book wonderfully edgy, delivered in street-smart prose.
America’s Literary IQ; Commentary on America’s Literary IQ
What is America’s literary IQ? Who should measure it, with what standards, and to what end? Mitchel Levitas discusses his role as editor of the New York Times Book Review, the selection of books covered by the Review, and the audience the Review addresses.