From the monthly archives: August 2009
Recently, my consumption of fiction has dropped off to within an epsilon of zero. I try to stumble through a New Yorker story now and then, and I've been known to stop what I’m doing to read Jhumpa Lahiri, even though I didn’t dig The Namesake. All in all, there's very little [...]
Continue Reading →I am excited to report the existence of The Dirty Pond, a new literary journal based in New Haven. In their own words:
The Dirty Pond is an independent online literary journal based in New Haven, Connecticut. The journal's primary objective is to provide a home for work by New Haven-affiliated writers, [...]
Continue Reading →Just for fun I recently re-read Italo Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979; trans. 1981), which I first read around 1983 and was enchanted by. My memory of the novel has always been a reference point whenever anyone discusses fictional sleight-of-hand, as with Borges, or Cortázar, or Barth, or what-have-you. Calvino’s version [...]
Continue Reading →In an earlier post I had mentioned Neil Gaiman’s presence at a conference I had attended, where he was putting in time signing books (at that moment his young adult fantasy The Graveyard Book). I first encountered Gaiman’s work when I selected American Gods for a local book club I was running [...]
Continue Reading →A new novel by Ben Greenman, published by Melville House
Rock-and-roll fiction tends to take easy outs, playing up the obvious excesses of the lifestyle so that we get big splashy works resembling tell-all accounts like Stephen Davis’ Hammer of the Gods or Peter Brown and Stephen Gaines’ The Love You Make. Groupies queue up, [...]
Continue Reading →Rafael Yglesias’s new novel, The Happy Marriage, is wholly autobiographical, a fact which may interest some readers, including those of our own pages. Ygliesias, a novelist and screenwriter who lost his wife, Margaret, to bladder cancer after nearly 30 years together, tells the story of a novelist and screenwriter, Enrique, who, after a [...]
Continue Reading →A conversation I was having with someone recently got me to thinking again about Gitlitz's Bakery, which used to be up on Whalley Avenue.
It was the opening of Manjares, a new cafe in Westville, that started it again. I think about Gitlitz's all the time, at least once every three weeks, I estimate, [...]
Continue Reading →By Werner Herzog; translated from the German by Krishna Winst (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2009)
In the annals of moviemaking catastrophe--from Apocalypse Now to Cleopatra to Heaven’s Gate to Waterworld--perhaps no famously troubled production has been more copiously documented than Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo.
Maybe it’s because, in that case, the making-of really is more interesting than the movie [...]
Continue Reading →People don't necessarily think of the greater New Haven are as a beach town—I imagine the label university town is much more widely used—but in the summer, it is. And I don't mean beach town in a snooty, country-club way. New Haven is a beach town the way that many of the towns on the [...]
Continue Reading →Silence is all we dread.
There's Ransom in a Voice --
But Silence is Infinity.
Himself have not a face.
-Emily Dickinson
Andy and I have been driving from Burlington, Vermont and back to New Haven a lot lately. Headed north from New Haven, the rise of New England and her green [...]
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