http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ en-us jessa@bookslut.com 2010-03-19T12:12:12-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php I was getting a little pissy at the ballet last night, having bought tickets to an updated version of Snow White. But Snow White was as annoyingly twee and pure as always, and the stepmother in some ridiculous leather bondage... 15885@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-19T12:12:12-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php Michael Schaub reviews Ted Morgan's Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War at NPR.org.... 15884@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-19T12:10:14-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php The New Republic reviews Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History and wonders why in the world the book would end in 1933. Getting around Hitler is a nice thought, but it might be a bit late... 15883@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-19T11:45:35-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php “Only the pen of some man who had been down in hell could have written it,” said Patrick Kavanagh of a profile of himself run in the Irish Leader, a publication he would decide to sue for libel. The trial... 15882@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-19T08:03:24-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php A Jim Behrle Production... 15881@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-19T02:33:22-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php What happens when you give a $500K to a journal of light verse? It realizes it needs $6 million: The genuinely charming story of Light Quarterly's founder and his patron: "Everybody likes light verse and enjoys reading it. If you... 15880@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-18T23:35:55-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php Really interesting article on Berlin's role as the gateway between Eastern European literature and the rest of the world, and how it is sometimes ambivalent about this job. Name dropped in the piece: Peter Nadas, City Sister Silver, Olga Tokarczuk... 15879@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-18T11:05:51-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php One of the delivery men who brings me books on a regular basis seems to have pursued this line of work due to what he saw happen to delivery men in porn films. He's a little ridiculous with his eyebrows... 15878@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-18T09:54:19-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php From Jonathan Coe's (online for subscribers only) review of Alasdair Gray's Old Men in Love, finally coming out soon in the States thanks to Small Beer Press: Although the formal bits [of Gray's biography] are full of useful information, they... 15877@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-18T09:44:42-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php Hooray, my friend Katy Derbyshire, translator and author of the Love German Books blog, is interviewed at Girls Can Blog.... 15876@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-18T02:03:49-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php The National Book Critics Circle Awards have undergone a British invasion. Tally ho, innit. Wolf Hall won something again, Hilary Mantel continued to fail to be interesting about it, Richard Holmes won the nonfiction prize for The Age of Wonder:... 15875@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-17T16:01:59-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php Australia's Miles Franklin Award, the Uluru of Ocker literary prizes, has released a healthy-looking longlist for 2010.... 15874@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-17T15:58:05-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php New year, new sexist con-trick. After last year's definitive vituperative condemnation of the Orange Prize, I wonder if any other literary notable will step up to the plate. The 2010 longlist is 'muscular and pleasurable' according to judge Daisy Goodwin,... 15873@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-17T15:01:08-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php I have a column at the Smart Set about Ben Yagoda's Memoir: A History, about people who fake being Holocaust survivors, 22 year olds with overactive webcams, and why it's really easy to hate memoirists. There's a lot of talk... 15872@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-17T13:46:25-06:00 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_03.php On the spirit of Tehran, to be found in the books of Ivan Klima. (Link via Lorraine Adams.)... 15871@http://www.bookslut.com/blog/ 2010-03-17T13:29:40-06:00