The New York Times Notable List 2012
T.C. Boyle’s amazing SAN MIGUEL is on the list, in case you want to feel better about whatever horrible winter weather you’re suffering through.
First sentence:
She was coughing, always coughing, and sometimes she coughed up blood.
(Source: millionsmillions)
Check it out! North Carolina’s Bulls Head Bookshop was so inspired by Meg Wolitzer’s conversation starting New York Times article on “Women’s Fiction” they created a whole display of their favorite female authors, topped off with a poster-sized blowup of Meg’s essay!
The use of different paintings meant each book was a “modern classic” in its own particular way. A side effect was that books I was reading for an education in literature doubled as an introduction to art history.
—Geoff Dyer, The Art of the Novel
