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Charlotte Mandell reads from Zone
on Oct 27, 2009 in Books Translation (I am two weeks behind on this one, but had to feature this here, as Charlotte is a friend and someone whose work I admire very much.) Charlotte Mandell was recently awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship for her work translating...
undergrad, redux
on Oct 14, 2009 in Academe Personal When I was an undergrad I remember having difficulty scheduling time to shower, much less to do all of the reading and writing for all of my classes. Then things calmed down and I forgot what that was like. Then...
unfinished
on Sep 29, 2009 in Books Critical France Since I've been back in Paris I've all of a sudden become a shockingly lazy reader. I've spent more time planning my lessons and watching "Big Love" than doing anything else. So Wolf Hall sits, halfway finished, next to my...
Scenes from a Paris night, in the key of A
on Sep 28, 2009 in Paris Personal Badaude has outdone herself. Here, she has immortalized the Five Dials launch party in one of her trademark sketches-- shunning all vowels except the letter A. Why do such a thing? Because the reading included a brilliant almost-Oulipian poem by...
In Paris this week
on Sep 22, 2009 in Paris Well, I'm back from Hong Kong, and back to being a literary girl about town. (Which is kind of a contradiction in terms. I don't actually get around that much because mostly I am in my apartment, reading.) This is...
On Cromwell
on Sep 14, 2009 in Books Personal ARGH. Is it Snow Leopard's fault that all my applications are freezing today? I don't know. But I just wrote a whole post about historical fiction and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and-- you guessed it-- Safari decided to freeze and...