Just last weekend, the British novelist Howard Jacobson was lamenting that he wasn’t being taken seriously. “There is a fear of comedy in the novel today,” he wrote the Guardian Saturday Review. “When did you last see the word ‘funny’ on the jacket of a serious novel?” Well, perhaps we’ll see it more often. It’s [...]
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Howard Jacobson Wins the Booker Prize
Posted in Literary, tagged Booker Prize, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Krypton, Man Booker Prize, novel, Superman, The Finkler Question on October 13, 2010 |
Jonathan Franzen Mans Up
Posted in Literary, tagged Freedom, Jonathan Franzen, man up, novel on September 10, 2010 |
When guests come into Studio 360 and get settled, I tend to have a bit of friendly small talk with them before we start the Official Interview. But as Jonathan Franzen and I chit-chatted earlier this week as we prepared to talk about his terrific new novel Freedom, one bit of that talk wasn’t so [...]
360 Staff Pick: No Joke
Posted in 360 Staff Picks, Literary, Music, tagged Momus, novel, The Book of Jokes on April 26, 2010 |
The Book of Jokes A Novel by Momus Momus (a Scotsman born Nick Currie) has a reputation as music’s darkest singer-songwriter, but his novel takes dark to another level. In The Book of Jokes, all jokes — obscene, cruel, etc. — actually happen, and they happen to one poor family. The beleaguered narrator, escaping his [...]
360 Staff Pick: A Fortunate Age
Posted in 360 Staff Picks, Literary, New York City, tagged A Fortunate Age, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Mary McCarthy, novel, satire, The Group on April 19, 2010 |
A Fortunate Age Joanna Smith Rakoff Four twenty-something women (and their lone male buddy, good-looking but a loser) navigate careers and relationships in the hippest precincts of New York. But let’s be clear: Smith Rakoff’s novel is not Carrie Bradshaw territory. Instead, it’s an homage, 70 years later, to Mary McCarthy’s satirical novel The Group. [...]
360 Staff Pick: Little Bee
Posted in 360 Staff Picks, Literary, tagged chris cleave, little bee, Nigeria, novel on February 15, 2010 |
Little Bee by Chris Cleave A vacationing British couple ventures outside the walls of their luxury resort. There, on a Nigerian beach, they run into Little Bee, a young girl fleeing a gang of brutal soldiers. The fallout of that encounter fuels the remainder of the novel. Readers will recognize their own human nature, for [...]
360 Staff Pick: Blame
Posted in 360 Staff Picks, Literary, tagged alcoholism, blame, history professor, homicide, michelle huneven, novel, prison, rehabilitation, responsibility, self-perception on January 11, 2010 |
Blame Michelle Huneven This gorgeously written novel tracks young history professor Patsy MacLemoore through her alcoholic blackouts, vehicular homicide, prison sentence, and rehabilitation. Don’t let the grim subject matter turn you away. The story’s exploration of responsibility, punishment, and the ways our self-perceptions determine our behavior is authentic and searing. – Cary Barbor
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