First, let me say that Audrey Niffenegger is a brilliantly creative woman. She has such an extraordinary talent for writing about characters that resonate with readers in such remarkably intimate ways. She weaves realism with what is supernatural with what is beautiful and what is disturbing. This is true of The Time Traveler's Wife, and as soon ( Read more... )

Adam Kirsch's New Yorker Review of Posthumous Keats

And I also ran into it in Slate article: "In Praise of Poetry  and originally heard about the book from the  Economist book review.

So I bet by the time the movie comes out, Keats will be some sort of trend or something, rendering the current esoteric-ity of this journal title-ing theme quite ( Read more... )

As I was reading the last few pages of Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being, I heard the tinkering melody of an ice cream truck around the neighborhood.  How impeccably appropriate - the heavy, the burdensome serious contemplative moment juxtaposed with the seemingly minor, childish, lighthearted sounds ( Read more... )