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☆ In Love, on the Road and Undead
  + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But it doesn’t say what should happen if the character dies and comes back to life as a tree — or at least a treelike variety of zombie. Then the love of his life, an ex-girlfriend named Lily, dies by suicide. But lo, somehow, here she is after her burial, undead, with dirt in her mouth and worms wriggling on her neck. Finn is still in love with Lily. Lily is still in love with Finn.
Persons: Lorrie Moore There’s, Vladimir Nabokov, Lorrie Moore’s fluky, Finn, Finn’s, Lily Organizations: IF Locations: Bronx
☆ In Richard Ford’s New Novel, One More Trip for Old Times’ Sake
  + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
In “The Sportswriter,” the first novel in this series, Frank started out as a sensitive young literary man who had published a book of stories. Though the Bascombe novels are set mostly in New Jersey’s wealthier suburbs, they are, oddly, road novels. Springsteen went from “Darkness on the Edge of Town” to “Letter to You.” Holy moly. Ford went from “Independence Day” and “The Lay of the Land” to “Let Me Be Frank With You” and “Be Mine.” Good Lord. The Bascombe novels are road novels, as well, because they are set during holidays, when families are in flux.
Persons: ”, Frank, Ford, yank, John Updike, Roth, Nathan Zuckerman, Angstrom, Bruce Springsteen —, Springsteen Organizations: Toyota Locations: New Jersey
☆ In Cold War Berlin, an Affair Born of Chaos and Control
  + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Hans, a 50-something novelist and high-minded writer for radio, is handsome and rangy, and he looks fine with a cigarette. If “Kairos” were only a tear-jerker, there might not be much more to say about it. Clinging to the undercarriage of her sentences, like fugitives, are intimations of Germany’s politics, history and cultural memory. Her work has attracted star translators, first Susan Bernofsky and now the poet and critic Michael Hofmann. “Kairos” — the title refers to the Greek god of opportunity — is her earthiest novel to date.
☆ Remembering Martin Amis
  + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The writer Martin Amis, who died last week at the age of 73, was a towering figure of English literature. Amis was “arguably the most slashing, articulate, devastatingly clear, pungent writer of the last 25 years of the past century and the first almost 25 of this century,” Garner says. Just his way with words, his descriptions, the fact that he scorned cliché, scorned outdated language. In my own life as a writer, there are very few writers — of course I’m not a fiction writer, but I study writing — there are only a handful of writers that I think of in the category that Martin Amis is in, which is, if I’m stuck on a piece or I’ve just written a bad sentence, I think: Would Martin Amis ever let this sentence go to print? Not that I can hope to match his sentences, but I hope not to sink to this level where, don’t do that because Martin Amis wouldn’t do it.”We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review’s podcast in general.
☆ Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World
  + stars: | 2023-05-22 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
NB BY J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement, by James CampbellIf you are a subscriber to the Times Literary Supplement, or TLS, that august literary review out of London, you know that its good, gray issues roll in every week, more quickly than it is possible to keep up. Davis didn’t mention it, but one part of the TLS no one skips, in my experience, is the NB column, which runs inside the back cover. This correspondent has officially been outed as James Campbell, a biographer of James Baldwin and a longtime editor at the magazine. He was a good steward of the column, and his best material has been collected now in “NB by J.C.: A Walk Through the Times Literary Supplement.”His NB was not a gossip column, Campbell explains. He hoped never to see the words “Martin” and “Amis” in proximity, and he mostly lived up to that vow.
☆ Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73
  + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
As he aged, he stopped playing tennis, a sport he once played daily and wrote about often. He mostly stopped writing criticism, too. “Insulting people in print is a vice of youth,” he said in an interview with The Independent. Mr. Amis was shortlisted for the award in 1991 for “Time’s Arrow,” and longlisted in 2003 for “Yellow Dog.”His final novel, “Inside Story,” published in 2020, was a “novelized autobiography” that considered his friendship with Mr. Hitchens and his relationship with his father. In “The Information,” he wrote: “Every morning we leave more in the bed: certainty, vigor, past loves.
☆ Essential Neil Gaiman and A.I. Book Freakout
  + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But what if you’re ready to dive in more methodically — where to begin? On this week’s episode, the longtime Gaiman fan J.D. Biersdorfer, an editor at the Book Review, talks with the host Gilbert Cruz about Gaiman’s work, which she recently wrote about for our continuing “Essentials” series. “He constantly reinvents himself.”Also on this week’s episode, Cruz talks with the Times critic Dwight Garner about “The Death of the Author,” a murder mystery that the novelist Stephen Marche wrote with the assistance of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence programs. in fact a harbinger of doom for creative writers?
☆ Vietnam Changed the Way This Jazz Man Heard the World
  + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
EASILY SLIP INTO ANOTHER WORLD: A Life in Music, by Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes EdwardsIt’s rare to come across a new Vietnam War memoir from a major publisher in 2023. Henry Threadgill’s “Easily Slip Into Another World” is an unusual entrant in the genre. For one thing, this astringent book is only in part about his war experience. In fact, “Easily Slip Into Another World” is so good a music memoir, in the serious and obstinate manner of those by Miles Davis and Gil Scott-Heron, that it belongs on a high shelf alongside them. But this memoir rises toward, and then falls away from, Threadgill’s war experience.
☆ The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.
  + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
KING: A Life, by Jonathan EigGrowing up, he was called Little Mike, after his father, the Baptist minister Michael King. Only in college did he drop his first name and began to introduce himself as Martin Luther King Jr. This was after his father visited Germany and, inspired by accounts of the reform-minded 16th-century friar Martin Luther, adopted his name. King Jr. was born in 1929. One writer, quoted by Jonathan Eig in his supple, penetrating, heartstring-pulling and compulsively readable new biography, “King: A Life,” called it “the richest Negro street in the world.”Eig’s is the first comprehensive biography of King in three decades.
☆ A Human Wrote This Book Review. A.I. Wrote the Book.
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The first novel was probably Murasaki Shikibu’s ‘Tale of Genji,’ written in the 11th century. The last one that mattered, closing a millennium’s loop, was probably Zadie Smith’s ‘White Teeth,’ published in 2000. What’s come since has been the death rattle, and remixes of that death rattle.”Those weren’t, you might have guessed, words from Siri. Samuel Richardson, in the 18th century, wondered if the novel had said what it had to say. The fire has been stirred under these questions thanks to the sudden arrival of sophisticated artificial intelligence chatbots, notably ChatGPT.
☆ ‘Mott Street’ Chronicles 4 Generations of Chinese American Life
  + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
MOTT STREET: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming, by Ava ChinOld family stories are hard to revivify, even when they’re good family stories. This is the problem Ava Chin is up against in her sensitive, ambitious, well-reported, heavily peopled yet curiously remote memoir-cum-history, “Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming.” It’s a book that has everything going for it except that intangible spark that crisp and confident storytelling throws off. The air is a bit still in this book, as if one is walking behind the docent on a long museum tour. Chin’s memoir takes its title from the narrow north-south road in Manhattan’s Chinatown that’s generally thought of as its Main Street, to which Chin’s family has a long and intricate and prosperous connection. When she’s on Mott Street, Chin feels she’s at home — except when she feels like an out-and-out alien (she can’t decide) because she and her mother were abandoned by her father and driven from the home place.
☆ Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues.
  + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
Catton resembles one of those teachers who can take a student’s simple-minded question and, without condescending, shape it into an ingenious one. The bullets really fly in “Birnam Wood.” The big explosion will probably go off. The Birnam Wood collective makes sure its apolitical Facebook page is sunny and welcoming. Birnam Wood has this cockeyed, D.I.Y. She’s aching to leave the collective, and she may not be as sensible as we think she is.
☆ Cormac McCarthy Loves a Good Diner
  + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Cormac McCarthy has long presented himself as a man of simple appetites. Diners — which he sometimes calls cafeterias or lunchcounters or drugstores — are all over the place in McCarthy’s fiction. The existential cowboys in McCarthy’s Border Trilogy novels, set out on the frontier, consume many of their meals fireside. Here too, though, hash houses are timeless way stations. The meals are, in this writer’s hands, private acts in public spaces.
Persons: Cormac McCarthy, Richard B, Woodward, McCarthy, Suttree ”, “ Organizations: The New York Times Magazine Locations: El Paso
☆ 19 Lines That Turn Anguish Into Art
  + stars: | 2021-06-18 | by ( Dwight Garner | Parul Sehgal | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +19 min
The art of losing isn’t hard to master. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Persons: Elizabeth Bishop The, losing’s
☆ The Essential Toni Morrison
  + stars: | 2021-02-18 | by ( Veronica Chambers | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
As we approach the anniversary of a global pandemic that has changed our lives in every way, it seems a fine time to dive back into the world of Toni Morrison. What convinces us that we do?”In everything Morrison wrote, she offered narratives that revealed the journeys of characters, specific but universal, flawed and imperfect, with a deeply American desire for freedom and adventure. As Dwight Garner wrote when she died in 2019, “Morrison had a superfluity of gifts and, like few other writers of her era, bent language to her will. To read Toni Morrison is to know that from her brilliant opening lines to the stunning last pages that leave you shook that you will likely never match her wit and wisdom, but what joy there is in trying! Creatively, Toni Morrison set a large and lavish table of literature.
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