I have decided to create another Blog, on blogger.com, that focuses exclusively on things like my interests in fiction/literature, film, culture, TV, the arts, American Letters, the academic world, thoughts and ideas.  It will be a semi-personal Commentary/Critic's column-type blog.  I have named it The Amatuer Critic.  BTW, does anybody else love ( Read more... )

OMG, I read this and just about died.  All of my like-minded literary fans (especially anyone who has read any American-Jewish Lit or Roth) will find this very, very funny.  And, in it's own tongue-in-cheek way, true,  Incidentally, American Pastoral is the next on my novels-to-read list.  It is all queued up for after finishing Even Cowgirls Get ( Read more... )