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Analysis of If on a Winter's night a traveller
Talking about and thinking about Italo Calvino's seminal and much-written about kind of novel...
:: STARTED BY Alex_DK
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:40 01.12.04
Paul Celan
Paul Celan specifically, or 'holocaust poetry' generally. Any comment on Adorno's 'poetry after auschwitz is barbaric'?
:: STARTED BY HCE
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:11 29.11.04
German-language contemporary poetry
what is known in english translations? how good are they?
:: STARTED BY madhatter
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:55 26.11.04
Christopher Hyatt
Recommendation from Amazon, author Christopher Hyatt, anyone read him?
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:57 16.11.04
David Mitchell
General thoughts; the new novel; comparing him to other writers...
:: STARTED BY Jester
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:07 12.11.04
My book's out in the UK now
My novel Man Bites Dog is being distributed in the UK as of this month.
:: STARTED BY matsya
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:55 10.11.04
The Sexual Life of Catherine M
Your views on this book?
:: STARTED BY Neo-Paladin
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:32 09.11.04
Robert B. Parker and the Spenser series.
Celebrating Spenser and Hawk, the real Odd Couple.
:: STARTED BY hachiman
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:32 04.11.04
Obsessed with Jack O'Connell
Disscussion of a VERY underrated crime novelist.
:: STARTED BY Jack_Rackem
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:49 02.11.04
Help me find a book...
I read this book about seal hunting and fishing and a snowstorm as a child, but I can't remember what it's called or who it's by!
:: STARTED BY Looby
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:17 22.10.04
Booker Schmooker
Is this really the best they/we can do?
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 32 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:35 22.10.04
Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction's Self-Effacing Patriarch, Dies at 74
The world seems filled with uninformed reporters. There is too much unintentional irony in the phrase, "father of deconstruction."
:: STARTED BY Hallucigenia
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:25 20.10.04
Stephen King: hanging up the shitty shoes...
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Jack The Bodiless
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:07 20.10.04
Victor Pelevin.
Russian Zen Buddhist Cyberpunk(ish) writer
:: STARTED BY Grand Panjandrum of the Pointless
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:01 18.10.04
Dutch diary 'was faked' to lure US into WWII
Dirk van der Heide's story, My Sister and I.
:: STARTED BY unheimlich manoeuvre
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:06 10.10.04
Books to help my godbrother, the reprobate
Ideas for a care package sent to a kid at reform school
:: STARTED BY iconoplast
:: 27 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:47 07.10.04
National Poetry Day 2004
Same as in previous years. Enrich us with your favourite poems. Or at least those that you can find online to cut and paste.
:: STARTED BY Loomis
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:59 07.10.04
The man without qualities
a place to talk about the austro-hungarian writer Robert Musil
:: STARTED BY Jester
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:28 05.10.04
Stephen King's The Dark Tower (SPOILERS)
In Which Roland Deschain and his Ka-Tet of Eld make their way to the Dark Tower that binds together all strands of reality.
:: STARTED BY Yotsuba & Benjamin!
:: 64 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:30 01.10.04
The Left Behind Series
Commenting on the Left Behind Series.
:: STARTED BY Seth
:: 52 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:22 30.09.04
Invisible Library
The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.
:: STARTED BY unheimlich manoeuvre
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:21 26.09.04
Playground Law
Childish fun
:: STARTED BY Benny the Ball
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:13 25.09.04
These Blasted DUNE prequels
Panning for elusive nuggets
:: STARTED BY Keith
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:21 19.09.04
E.C. Tubb's Dumarest Saga
Earl Dumarest, space bum, survivalist, knife duellist, and most wanted man in the Universe, with a love life so spectacularly disasterous he makes Northwest Smith look like Flesh Gordon.
:: STARTED BY Lord Morgue
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:18 16.09.04
Rudy Rucker
Do you enjoy sci-fi? Do enjoy a fast paced book written in a fun style, packed with action and weirdness? Then you ought to read more Rucker!
:: STARTED BY the cat's iao
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:47 14.09.04
The Merlin Conspiracy - spoilers
New Diana Wynne Jones to lighten our days. Can broaden as, believe it or not, I don't think we have a DWJ <i>specific</i> thread yet.
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:40 13.09.04
To be or not to be, I there's a point
British Library to put an early collection of the Bard's work online.
:: STARTED BY Tezcatlipoca
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:07 10.09.04
Ken Wilber and Yasuhiko Kimura
what books of wilbur and Kimura should i be reading?
:: STARTED BY paw
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:43 06.09.04
Stanley Donwood
ever read him? you might want to.
:: STARTED BY TeN
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:09 05.09.04
The Aeneid: Book Club Reading Thread
In which we discuss the Aeneid by Virgil/Vergil (as opposed to the other thread, in which we discuss the possibility of reading the Aeneid and how to go about it).
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:29 16.08.04
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