Overheard in New York. Laugh out loud exchanges from the greatest(!) city on earth. (Most popular exchanges).
Jul 052007
An Illustrated History of the Bikini
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Jul 032007
An Illustrated History of the Bikini, from Slate. Yes, illustrated. Bye.
Fish Hits For Bongs
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Jul 022007
A Chitrita Banerji essay in Salon, on the importance of fish in Bengali kitchens.
Jul 022007
Yeah, we know this is old; but it is so much fun. Plus, we get to take the high ground and say that when other blogs cover cheap stuff like Padma leaving Rushdie, we cover important things like this feud.
‘Tis Saturday, time for McEwan
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Jun 302007
An Ian McEwan profile (masquerading as a review) from the latest issue of the New York Review of Books. (Also in this issue: an excerpt from Coetzee’s upcoming Diary of A Bad Year).
Nancy Drew
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Jun 302007
Slate “celebrates” Nancy Drew.
Enid Rowling. Not.
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Jun 302007
How Blyton and Rowling carefully cultivate(d) their personas for public consumption — the former a bit more than the latter. The Telegraph investigates, in an article that reads rather abrupt. And only the millionth article on the power of Potter.
Divisadero Reviews
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Jun 292007
By now, it is almost official: Michael Ondaatje’s Divisadero is good, but not as good as The English Patient, or even Anil’s Ghost. Yvonne Zipp is lukewarm on the book (“more poetry than plot”) while Janet Maslin is a bit more positive. (“ initially difficult, but the more you give “Divisadero,” the more it gives in return.” ). Manish says the same thing too, in fewer words.
The Simple Art of Murder
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Jun 292007
From The Atlantic, here is Raymond Chandler holding court on detective fiction. And while on The Atlantic, some writing tips from the biggies.
