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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Colfer proves that the Author may not be dead
When Roland Barthes said ‘the author is dead’ it seems Douglas Adams, like Ian Fleming, took him literally, much to the disappointment of their publishers. Why let a good thing die with the author? Living writers take up the reigns of their late contemporaries to continue the story posthumously.
Not unheard of, [...]
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Müller follows minority suit to win Nobel for Literature
With French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio in 2008, Austrian playwright Elfriede Jelinek in 2004 and Hungarian Jewish author Imre Kertész in 2002, recent winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature show a common trend towards the minority. Herta Müller, however, shows this favouratism to be more than the academy’s social conscience.
As a minority [...]
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Title: There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
Author: Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
Published by: Penguin Non-Classics
Cover Design: Christopher Brand
As Russian novelists, playwrights and writers go, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is as good as it gets for modern fiction. Using her postmodern vantage point, Petruchevskaya references the works of her predecessors’, such as [...]
Twilight feeds on 30-somethings
Ever since Stephenie Meyer turned vampires into glittering vegans, they’ve become increasingly mainstream, followed no longer by post-punk goths or the lugubrious, but now by bloggers, teen mom’s and 25-34 year-olds.
According to a study done by The Nielson Company, consumers have been drawn to all things vampire since the Twilight series and film became popular, [...]
Burton’s Alice for kids?
Being full of nonsense may be why kids love Alice so much. Yet being nonsensical may in fact be the reason Alice is not for children.
Sombre auteur, Tim Burton, takes on Lewis Carroll in what has been dubbed the new-age Gothic version of Alice in Wonderland. While Burton fans revel in excitement, noted quite conspicuously [...]
The Booker who cried Wolf
Mantel wins both booker and the ire of Byatt. But are either deserved?
When Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel was announced as the winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize last night, it wasn’t exactly a surprise for those of us who had been watching developments in anticipation. She was the favourite in betting [...]
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Title: The Time Traveler’s Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Publisher: MacAdam/ Cage
This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with [...]
The Lie That Tells the Truth
Title: The Lie that Tells a Truth
Author: John Dufresne
Published by: W.W. Norton & Co.
Designed by: John Fulbrook III
Author John Dufresne instructs us how to write in his book The Lie that Tells a Truth: A guide to writing fiction. A manual on book-writing, the non-fiction is divided into “The Process” which focuses on habits and [...]
Judging a Book by its cover: 1984