Books I Am Interested in Reading (After Perusing the 5 August 2007 Issue of The New York Times Book Review) :
(1) After reading Claire Messud‘s review of Dalia Sofer’s first novel, The Septembers of Shiraz:
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
Dalia Sofer’s The Septembers of Shiraz
(2) After reading Phillip Lopate’s review of Patrick McGilligan’s Oscar Micheaux, The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker :
Patrick McGilligan’s Oscar Micheaux, The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker
(3) After reading Jeff Turrentine’s short reviews in the Fiction Chronicle :
Ottavio Cappellani’s first novel, Who is Lou Sciortino?
Manuel Muñoz’s short story collection, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
Ann Harleman’s second story collection, Thoreau’s Laundry: Stories
An anthology of essays, Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects With Unexpected Significance, edited by Joshua Glenn and Carol Hayes
(4) After reading Stephen Metcalf’s end-paper essay, The Road to Rightville:
Why I Turned Right: Leading Baby Boom Conservatives Chronicle Their Political Journeys, edited by Mary Eberstadt
Josh Glenn said,
August 28, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Please do read “Taking Things Seriously.” You won’t regret it! Highly anthropological. Also read “Great Gatsby,” but please note that Daisy is a Skrull.
anthropologist said,
August 28, 2007 at 10:16 pm
All right, so you are the Josh Glenn who edited abovementioned 75 OBJECTS? I’m soooo there! Will you sign it for me?
I do not know what a Skrull is. Is that some kind of fictional outer-space alien?