Chekhov's Mistress
Got Cash?
Great gift ideas for your friends starting long prison sentences or a convalescence in a remote area: Penguin is offering 1082 titles, their entire classics library, for $7,989.50 (this, apparently is an Amazon.com exclusive and comes out to $7.38 per book while the ‘normal’ price is $13,315.84).
Now, for my money, I’d go for the Dalkey Archive Press offer of 100 books for 500 bucks and that’s not just because it’s the cheapest. Another good one is the NYRB Classics offering. They are selling their first 150 books published for $1081.67 (that’s $7.21 per book).
I suppose you could choose based on the sentence; the 20-25 year plan (good for life sentences too) is Penguin, and for shorter, two to five year stints in solitary confinement, go with the Dalkey or NYRB.
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And some items of note…
Bloggers Blogging the Good Blog
Pay a visit to Scott Esposito’s innovative quarterly blog-lit-journal, The Quarterly Conversation.
Also, YPs The Rake and Tingle Alley have a dialogue going on between their sites on Salvador Plascencia’s novel The People of Paper.
Mark Sarvas and Jessa Crispin get some love, sort of, from the CSM: Book blogs’ buzz grows louder. I’m always amused at the
Aimee Bender
Powell’s has an interview with Aimee Bender:
Bender: That’s a dream. The book is so poetic. That was what amazed me about Ulysses: how playful it is on the page, how exuberantly playful. That’s the shock that I felt about it, which I feel repeatedly with great literature. How playful The Great Gatsby is, to name another, how he’ll take an image and it will be sparking with life.
I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And then you discover that the classics are classics because they’re lively. They don’t stick around because they’re boring. If they’re boring, they go away.
If you’ve not seen any of the Powell’s interviews before, you’ll find a list on the left of the page on the Bender interview.
[update] There is also an interview with Ms. Bender at Bookslut.
New Issues
BoldType has a new issue out and the theme is “Fortune.”
Poetry Magazine has some new content up from their September issue, including Meghan O’Rourke’s (the new co-poetry editor of The Paris Review), poem “Sleep,” and poetry, criticism and biographical details on W.B. Yeats.
The current issue of the New York Review of Books looks like a cover-to-cover read and is online with content (most is subscriber only) from Chabon, Coetze, Banville and others.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: September 06, 2005
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