Archive for March 2007

Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” wins Pulitzer Prize

Editor’s note: Cormac McCarthy has won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. America’s most distinguished literary award comes on the heels of perhaps its most lucrative honor: Oprah Winfrey named the novel as her latest book club pick. In the following review, which we originally posted in January, we agree that it is a phenomenal […]

Calvin Trillin tells a love story “About Alice”

About Alice is a short book. Written by Calvin Trillin to honor is beloved wife, the eponymous Alice, who died five years ago, this slight tome is big of heart and largely a glance back at a woman with whom many readers have become acquainted through Trillin’s sizeable and entertaining body of work. Perhaps it’s […]

Journey to imagined worlds in classic science fiction series

I’ve been reading science fiction since about the age of 13, and in 40 years have seen no reason to cease. There are the classics and the neoclassics, and despite the moaning of purists that the golden age is behind us, there are still many works of merit. For this review, I’ve included a classic […]

Philip Roth wins his third PEN/Faulkner award for “Everyman”

Portnoy isn’t complaining, and there’s no plot against this American author. Philip Roth has again proven his literary Superman status with Everyman, which won the 2007 PEN/Faulkner award for fiction this week. It’s the third time he’s won the PEN/Faulkner—this time for a 192-page novel that looks backward at the life of a 70-year-old “everyman” […]