Earlier this week, Collum McCann's novel Let the Great World Spin won this year's National Book Award for fiction. The story takes place in New York City in 1974. A street full of people stands rapt as a tightrope walker crosses between the towers of the World Trade Center. McCann follows their lives after the … Continue reading "It was the dilemma of the watchers"
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The Examined Life
In the cover story of this weekend's New York Times Book Review, Stephen King discusses the life and career of Raymond Carver, one of America's great short story writers. Carver was also, however, "the destructive, everything-in-the-pot kind of drinker who hits bottom, then starts burrowing deeper."King's summary draws heavily from Carol Sklenicka's new biography Raymond … Continue reading The Examined Life
Fashion on the Radio
Scott Schuman, who curates the Sartorialist and who put together a book gathering together the best of the blog's fashionable pictures, was recently on The Sound of Young America podcast. His talk on style is worth hearing, even without the pretty pictures. Here it here:You can also download the podcast here.--David E
Musings from Magers and Quinn 