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A God Is Nominated

This is a good week for us literary freaks, what with Doris Lessing winning the Nobel Prize for Literature today, which you can read about in my previous post here, and the National Book Award Nominations being announced yesterday. So, let’s just cut straight to the chase here–Denis Johnson was nominated for Tree of Smoke.  […]

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New (To Me) Author

I mentioned in my previous post that I’ve been lolling about all day.  The reason for this, besides the fact that it is the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend, is because I am reading a novel I cannot put down.  The book is called The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington and it is about a […]

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Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan  Lethem, author of Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn , among other books and novels, was at Portland Arts and Lectures last night.  I’m embarrassed to admit I’ve never read him, but my friend Lauri had an extra ticket, and being the book slut that I am, I figured I’d go.

I’m glad I did, Lethem gave a good lecture–deep and informative and full of pithy commentary on current events (aka Imus) and he was funny, too.

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