Remember Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? Kurt sat down with the up-and-coming Nigerian writer last December – on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Things Fall Apart – to ask how it felt being called the “21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe.” Her answer? Pretty good. Now Adichie’s come out with a wonderful new collection of short [...]
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Chimamanda!
Posted in Literary, tagged books, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Shivering, The Thing Around Your Neck, Things Fall Apart on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Infinite Summer
Posted in Literary, tagged books, David Foster Wallace, Fitzgerald, Gatsby, Infinite Jest, Infinite Summer on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week on Studio 360 we take a look at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American classic The Great Gatsby. We might not like to admit it, but Gatsby’s popularity–and its iconic status–has more than a little to do with length. It’s short (a brilliantly compact 182 pages), easily finished in a weekend. Not so the [...]
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