Thursday Evening Book Reviews
Joanna Smith Rakoff gets taken to task in Newsday for reworking an older novel, THE GROUP, with her debut, A FORTUNATE AGE.
The Windy City Media Group grumbles at Jenny Block’s memoir of an OPEN marriage.
But a young woman at The Andover Townsman breaks the grim cycle by heaping praise on Joan Didion’s collection of essays, THE WHITE ALBUM.
The Atlantic reprints it 1896 review of THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLEN POE.
AuthorScoop
May 1st, 2009 at 10:46 am
So the prepsters at Phillips Andover Academy are reading Didion these days. Next they’ll be parsing the lyrics of “Desolation Row.”
May 1st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
They just might. Look out.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
“They’re selling postcards of the hanging,
they’re painting the passports brown . . .”
Discuss