Monthly Archives: March 2008
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism, by John Updike, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007, 705 pages
Is there a living writer whose achievements are so much taken for granted as John Updike’s? History is fertilized with unknown masters; but what about recognized masters who are under-appreciated? What happens to such fruit? How can any literary award’s … Continue reading
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One Man’s Meat, by E.B. White, Harper & Row, c1944, republished by Tilbury House, 1997, 279 pages
“Foreswearing certain easy rituals, such as earning a living and running the world’s errands” — this, according to E.B. White in a letter written in 1937 to his wife, Katherine, is what’s required for anyone searching for “intellectual and spiritual … Continue reading
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Part III — The Vintage Book of Indian Writing, 1947-1997; Edited by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, Vintage Publishers, 1998, 576 Pages
Part III Mind you, ELECTRA (not to be confused with Freud’s misinterpretation of the goddess), although lacking in most Indian customs, is not a bad place to live. Joyce, Proust, Melville – the world’s finest writers have vacation homes there. But these … Continue reading
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