Hindustan Times
One of my heroes is dead. John Updike, one of the greatest writers the 20th century produced and the luminous chronicler of the lives and loves of small-town America, has died of lung cancer at the age of 76. Read more
(5 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Guardian, Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom novels, John Updike
My neighbourhood Crossword has a clearance sale on, and I went the other day. I never, on principle, leave a bookstore without having bought something (anything). And if there are books to be had at bargain prices, I can never resist them. In the event, it turned out to be a pretty decent haul. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Eclipse, The Heart of Things, The Naming of the Dead, We Were the Mulvaneys, Zuckerman Unbound
We read, as the 17th century English poet John Dryden told us, “for instruction and delight”. We read, as the Victorian novelist George Eliot said, because “art is the nearest thing to life”. What that means, the critic Louis Bayard explains, is that “to approach the mystery of our own condition, we have to grasp the mystery by which words make worlds”. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Friday, January 23, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Books, English poet John Dryden, Moscow, novel, Tender is the Night
