Goodies
Some goodies from the Guardian:
- A long and interesting article about Grace Paley of whom the author Ali Smith
believes that if she does not get the recognition she deserves outside America it is because "she is about things that do not suit a high profile: the short form, the political everyday, the small survival (which is, actually, epic), the playful potential, the unsentimental hope. Like all great, great writers, she is uncategorisable. Her stories are specially compacted, primed to resonate, disconcert, and then force you, in a way that's somehow both gentle and extraordinarily tough, to be intelligent. They don't haunt; they preoccupy."
My Bookman and I had the great fortune of attending a Paley reading a couple years ago. She is an amazing woman, full of life and stories. - Tom Wolfe on his new novel, America and politics. The NY times also has an article about Wolfe with a decidedly less political and a more American celebrity take.
- A List! Jonathan Stroud's favorite fantasy books
