Helen DeWitt

1 month ago | readings.com.au | Helen DeWitt |Michel Faber |Malcolm Gladwell |Rosalie Ham

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Aug 13, 2024 | aarp.org | Colson Whitehead |Jenny Offill |Helen DeWitt |Leïla Slimani

Photo Collage: AARP; (Source: Vintage (2); Catapult; New Directions; Penguin Books; Bellevue Literary Press; Grove Press (2); Getty Images (2)) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn It happens to countless book clubs: You start out with great intentions of reading brilliant weighty novels, taking on books like Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Demon Copperhead (560 pages) or Abraham Verghese’s epic The Covenant of Water (736 pages). They’re fantastic, but many members of your group just don’t...

Aug 1, 2024 | booksofsomesubstance.com | David Southard |William Faulkner |Helen DeWitt |Knut Hamsun

What are you reading currently and why? Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory (trans. Sasha Dugdale). I love to read books that sort of dare me to go against my natural instincts. In this case, very somber and serious writing which takes its time. My novels all have this sort of manic, ecstatic pace, which is something I sort of aim for (and which also comes very naturally). But I’m interested lately in slowing down the prose. Same thing with Sebald, whom I love.

Jun 27, 2024 | nybooks.com | Helen DeWitt

Flip had not wanted a New York agent, but there had been no help for it. She’d been scribbling up in the nursery when Roddy came in, incensed, because some feller had got the number of Champneys by nefarious means and rung him up on the blower. She had refused to come to the phone. She hated phones. She refused the first five times, but in the end Roddy had insisted she talk to the feller to put an end to it.

Aug 13, 2023 | paperpools.blogspot.com | Helen DeWitt

Greek, LatinRhapsodesSociety for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin: has recordings of Homer, Pindar, many others. PerseusExtensive body of Greek and Latin texts in the original languages and in translation; offers ability to click on a word for a definition, grammatical information. Also has lexica, grammars, various other resources.