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...o-o-o-o-o-o-gan Berry makes a sick move, beats her defender and puts home a nice layup...
Though the National Book Critics Circle Award carries no money, its posthumous awarding to Roberto Bolaño for his monster of a work, “2666,” raises a host of unsettling questions about the place of prizes, especially monetized prizes, in the world of letters. It’s not that “2666” was not a great work or that I feel it shouldn’t have won. In fact, though I have to admit I haven’t finished it, I have a hard time believing that there...
Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones (Harper; 984 pages) is one of those brutalist European maxi-novels that periodically come soaring at us across the Atlantic as if lofted here by a trebuchet. The last one was Roberto Bolao's 2666, in November. You can recognize them by their seriousness of purpose, their wild overestimation of the reader's attention span and their interest in physical violence that makes Saw look like Dora the Explorer. It's as if these European writers are laughing at their prim American counterparts, with their fussy scruples, the way Sudanese warlords laugh...
Seeing you on shows like Conan O'Brien's makes me think you'd do well in comedy. Are there any comedies you wish you'd done? Marla T. Jacobson, ATLANTA...
...story that is good enough to be in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic.” Menand introduced Hale’s story with a speech on the elements of a great story, drawing upon examples from writers like John Updike, James Joyce, and O. Henry, He told the audience that he chose her piece because it embodied the abstract quality that Joyce called the “whatness of a thing” which is the ability to give the reader “a pang, a shiver...