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January 21, 2005

Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story

"Sarah Cole: A Type of Love Story" is one of my favorite short stories. Told in a unique fashion, it begins in first person then quickly switches to third as a defense mechanism, it's a love story as heartfelt and heartbreaking as any ever told.

Here is a link to the story, which I found online and here is a link to Russell Banks reading an abridged version on the NPR show, This American Life.

Enjoy!

Posted by Cara at 07:44 AM | Comments (2)

January 12, 2005

Best of....

Hi all, I'm grounded from posting at my site but I decided that it doesn't mean I can't cause a ruckus over here!

I am pretty obsessed with end of the year lists. I especially like the ones that move on from the LARGE BIG SELLERS (Plot Against America) to the smaller lesser known titles and authors. Not that the LARGE BIG SELLERS don't deserve the acclaim (I'm loving Roth right now) but they tend to over-shadow some equally deserving books.

Here are a few:

Critical Consensus The "Best of 2004" Meta-List

Recommendations from Ron Charles of the Christian Science Monitor

I just found this one today:

THE YEAR IN BOOKS 2004 from PopMatters

Has anyone read any of these books?
Any recommendations for your "Best Books of 2004"?

I found that I didn't read many books that were published in 2004 (those hard covers are damn expensive.) Of the books that I read in 2004 I would say that The Bone People by Keri Hulme was one of the best.

I'm looking forward to "talking" with all of you!

Wendy (www.thebookishgirl.blogspot.com)

Posted by Wendy at 02:40 PM | Comments (1)

January 11, 2005

Lorrie Moore

A new short story by Lorrie Moore is in this week's New Yorker. Not something to be missed!

Posted by Knit One Read Too at 01:58 PM | Comments (2)

January 03, 2005

Ploughshares

Ploughshares is a really great literary journal that just so happens to have archived pretty much all of its stories, poems and articles online. They also generate a random list of selections from previous issues everyday. It's worth checking out.

PS: I teach "Bloodlines" by Catherine Ryan Hyde in my creative writing classes. Enjoy!

Posted by Knit One Read Too at 04:02 PM | Comments (1)