Monthly Archives: July 2006

I’m due for a long Proust blog, but as I’m only 16 pages into the second volume, “In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower” (the cumbersome title makes me grumpy), I will cheat with a Monday poll: Dear reader, … Continue reading →

A few sentences in this review by Meghan O’Rourke of a new Harper Lee biography really bothered LK, and it’s time for a pouncing: Even so, Mockingbird fails to offer as nuanced a portrait of Lee as one would hope … Continue reading →

I am inclined to imagine Marcel banging away at an iBook, with popcorn ceilings above and walls stapled with cardboard egg cartons. Somehow I feel Joyce would sneer at authoring a blog; too proletarian. Any ideas on what Proust’s blog … Continue reading →

And now, to elevate Thursday to the same status as other days of the week (many of which are featured in popular songs), LK continues to amuse the muse by musing. What makes this Thursday different from any other Thursday? … Continue reading →

You know the feeling: You’re dying to get lost in a new read, have an author haul you by the roots of your hair into a universe far away from your own, find an un-put-downable tome that you keep at … Continue reading →

A few days in the High Sierra…peace, quiet, nature. And now back to more than a hundred hideous work-related e-mails. So we’re taking a few moments to preserve the vacation mentality a bit longer. Found the perfect book to take … Continue reading →

Over at Involuntary Memory, Stefanie and Dorothy have engaged in a discussion over the madeleine scene in the Combray section of the book, which Stefanie cites as an example of involuntary memory. She goes on to say: What I find … Continue reading →

Over at Kate’s Book Blog, talk of a short story reading group has made me go all soft and nostalgic about the genre. While I love reading novels (and struggle to write one, as not one but two agents asked … Continue reading →

In cultural and literary references, Thursday gets short shrift. Think about it: Other days of the week garner a lot more attention. There’s Monday, which everyone sings the blues about. Tuesday is, in our opinion, undeservedly popular: You’ve got Mardi … Continue reading →

Oprah. There, we said it. We suppose Oprah is one of the less harmful of the dopiness pushers out there, but for the record, LK does not believe in the Mary Poppins of culture (“a spoonful of sugar makes the … Continue reading →