Michael Deagler’s first novel follows a young man who is piecing his life back together and trying very hard not to drink. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-05-06 09:00:26 UTC ]
“The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man.” “The when and where do not matter.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-11-09 19:42:28 UTC ]
Sex, Time, and Memory: Annie Ernaux’s Young Man, by Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee Book Reviews [email protected] Mon, 08/21/2023 - 15:04 The Young Man—forthcoming from Seven Stories in September 2023—is Annie Ernaux’s first novel in English... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-08-21 20:04:48 UTC ]
The book began as a series of weekly newspaper columns in which the author attempted to trace the path of the Dutch artist’s early years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-09-10 13:27:53 UTC ]
It’s damn near inevitable—someone asking me “who do I write for?” Most times I say, I’m writing for a 20-year-old version of myself, a young man who wasn’t a reader, but who might’ve been had he been exposed to the right books; who wasn’t an intellectual, but was ever curious; who listened to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-25 19:00:48 UTC ]
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the bestselling author and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, is about to add novelist to the list. His debut novel, 'The Water Dancer' (One World, Sept.), follows a young man’s conflicted journey into the covert war on slavery. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
In his unfortunately-titled 1895 self-help book Successward: A Young Man’s Book for Young Men, Edward Bok had the following to say about the importance of honesty in business: Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the wake of Hugh Hefner’s death, the magazine’s former fiction editor shares how she got everyone from Donna Tartt to Margaret Atwood to write for herI am not the only woman who worked at Playboy and kept her clothes on. When I was hired as literary editor in 2005, Hugh Hefner’s basic recipe... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former prime minister tells BBC Radio 4 that learning about the Russian revolutionary was ‘like a light going on’Tony Blair has said that he “toyed with Marxism” as a young man after being inspired by a biography of Leon Trotsky that detailed “extraordinary causes and injustices”.The former... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiction reviews editor Gabe Habash recommends 'What Belongs to You,' the brilliantly structured story of an American teacher in Bulgaria caught in a love affair with a young man. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The feted US literary agent on addiction, attempted suicide, and having his first novel longlisted for the Booker prizeBill Clegg is a leading New York literary agent and the author of the bestselling memoirs Portrait of an Addict As a Young Man and Ninety Days, which describe respectively his... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Still captivated by the distinctive small Virginia town where he grew up, Billy Coffey returns to its proxy in his latest novel, which explores what happens when 20 years’ worth of guilt about a young man’s untimely death overtakes three high school classmates. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
So you're an admirer of James Joyce's "Ulysses"? Well, thank Trieste for that book. So you're an admirer of James Joyce's "Ulysses"? Well, thank Trieste for that book. Why? Gordon Bowker's "James Joyce: A New Biography" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 608 pp., $35) shows readers how living in that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-15 00:00:00 UTC ]