From the monthly archives: May 2010
By Christopher Hitchens (Twelve, 2010)
I just finished Christopher Hitchens’s magnificent new memoir, Hitch-22. I hated his last book, the one about God — or, as he would have it, god. Well, fair enough. I always thought the big-G god thing was an unfortunate bit of deck-stacking. But it was a truly ill-informed book, one [...]
Continue Reading →We at the New Haven Review wanted to thank all of those who participated in the spring 2010 season of Listen Here! Among those to whom we are grateful:
The staff of the New Haven Review and its trustees: You helped pick the stories, you attended the readings, you cheered the series along. [...]
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I had known for a long time that Le Grande Meaulnes was author John Fowles’ favorite book. Since he was one of my favorite authors, I half-heartedly searched for a copy of this lost French classic. But something always stopped me, until I read Henry Miller’s Continue Reading →
The Listen Here! Short Story Reading Series rolls into its 12th week with readings at Manjares Fine Pastries, this Tuesday, 838 Whalley Avenue (on West Rock Avenue), May 25, 7 p.m.
Our Theme?
“Romeos & Juliets”
Our Stories?
Louise Erdrich’s “The Plague of Doves” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
Why these?
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Eveline
by James Joyce
read by Bennett Lovett-Graff
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Digital sound recorder in hand, we consider this the first of, we hope, several experiments in sound recordings of the written word by and from the New Haven Review.
In this case, attached as an MP3, and thus [...]
Continue Reading →Continuing a theme: on letter writing:
I’ve written and mailed two handwritten cards in the last few days, and I’ve been a magnet, recently, for books about letters. One is a book that came out a couple of years ago, Other People’s Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See, edited by Bill [...]
Continue Reading →Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets. Edited by Alexander Neubauer. Knopf, 342 pp.
This book is a perfect gift for any reader or writer of poetry. It consists of transcripts excerpted from the amazing classes held by Pearl London at the New School in New York, from 1970 to the late [...]
Continue Reading →The Listen Here! Short Story Reading Series rolls into its 11th week with readings at Bru Cafe, 141 Orange, Street, this Tuesday, May 18, 7 p.m.
Our Theme?
“Brothers”
Our Stories?
Louise Erdrich’s “The Red Convertible” and David Sedaris’s “You Can’t Kill the Rooster”
Why these?
Louis Erdrich is one of [...]
Continue Reading →Did you see New Haven Review on the front page of the Sunday edition of the New Haven Register? The occasion was our induction into the Community Media Lab (http://www.nhregister.com/bloghaven/). Oh, and by the way, if you haven't checked out the CML, then you should because right now it's becoming the best way to [...]
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A short consideration of romance in New Haven
Fellow New Haven Review contributor Nora Nahid Khan recently wrote an article for the New Haven Advocate about the futility of attempting to find romance in New Haven.
(Link here: sorry, I can't seem to get the link function to work right now: http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/commentary/love-new-haven )
I know what she's talking about. I really and truly [...]
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