From the monthly archives: March 2010
Some time ago, I joined friends in New Haven for a Friday night meal. Their daughter was in town, back from college, and over the course of dinner conversation, I asked if she had any professors who were stood out from the others. She immediately described two of her instructors, who were notable for the [...]
Continue Reading →By Robert Louis Stevenson
I searched for this out-of-print travel classic for long time, combing used bookstores across Connecticut. Finally, I found a red, cloth-bound pocket edition. The cover was gorgeous and the print inside oozed adventure. There was only one problem: The copy was falling apart. So, I taped and glued and then took [...]
Continue Reading →Here at NHR, we try to lean more heavily on good books, but every once in a while a book is such a missed opportunity that it's instructive to point out how. Hence my review of Daniel Menaker's A Good Talk, posted this morning to the New Republic's web site.
Menaker is [...]
Continue Reading →Now sing!
Let’s all be jolly
Banish melancholy
Life is but a party
A never-ending ball
And if you will or if you won’t
And if you do or if you don’t
‘Tis a choice of folly
La la la la
For nitwits are we all.
[...]
Continue Reading →The Listen Here! Short Story Reading Series rolls into its 3rd week with readings at Bru Cafe, 141 Orange, Street, this Tuesday, March 23, at 7 p.m.
Our theme?
“Breaking Up Is Hard to Do”
Our stories?
Bobbie Ann Mason's "Shiloh" and Bernard Malamud's "The Jewbird"
Why these?
Two great writers, masters, in [...]
Continue Reading →Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks
Ethan Gilsdorf
Lyons Press, 2009
$24.95
If we’ve learned anything from Sigmund Freud and J.K. Rowling, it’s that we members of the species homo sapiens sapiens exhibit a strong fantasy life. From the family romance to wingardium [...]
Continue Reading →by Jens Peter Jacobsen (trans. Tiina Nunnelly; Penguin, 2006)
Niels Lyhne is one of those forgotten masterpieces that, when he finds it, a reader cannot believe he or the rest of humanity has gotten along without. I found Jacobsen through Rainer Maria Rilke’s letters, not knowing that the nineteenth-century Danish writer had [...]
Continue Reading →The Listen Here! Short Story Reading Series gets off the ground this week with its first readings at Willoughby's Coffee & Tea at 194 York Street, at 7 p.m.
Our theme?
"What Did She See in Him?"
Our stories?
Raymond Carver's "Fat" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Jelly-Bean"
Why these?
"Why [...]
OK, call me lazy, but I'm reposting something I had written once upon a time for my personal blog and still find to be the case, not that currency always justifies repetition. But, in this instance, I'm making an exception.
Once, while I sat schmoozing in the home of New Haven Review editor Mark Oppenheimer, [...]
Continue Reading →The reality is that not everyone can be a doctor, not everyone can be a professional athlete, and not everyone can be a writer. You may be a precious snowflake, but if you can’t express your individuality in sterling prose, I don’t want to read about it.
–Ted Genoways, "The Death of Fiction?" in [...]
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