In 1980, there appeared a most interesting memoir--Amazons: An Intimate Memoir by the First Woman Ever to Play in the National Hockey League. Ostensibly written by Cleo Birdwell, its author is in fact Don DeLillo, and its subject never existed. According to the article, "The Puck Stopped Here", published in BookForum, DeLillo's publisher at the … Continue reading Truthy
Up North
On April 8, Philip Pullman's semi-prequel to the His Dark Materials trilogy will be released. The book, entitled Once Upon a Time in the North, follows aeronaut Lee Scoresby's journey to Svalbard as a boy; he appears in the trilogy as a grown man. The Guardian has published an excerpt.--David E
"…and yes I said yes I will Yes."
The American Book Review has posted its list of the "100 Best Last Lines from Novels" (.pdf). My vote goes to #73: "Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine." That's the ending of Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, a book I once started, but never finished. I'm glad to learn that it … Continue reading "…and yes I said yes I will Yes."
Musings from Magers and Quinn 