NYTBR This Week
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One of my favorite Kindle subscriptions is to the New York Times Book Review, a once-a-week offering well worth the few bucks it costs. This week's edition had some nice tidbits:
* Curtis Sittenfeld's master class in how to write a negative review (in this case of Monica Ali's new novel about a fictionalized Princess Diana who fakes her own death and moves to America).
* Leah Hager Cohen's simple observation: "We are [. . .] incapable of not doing wrong."
* Danzy Senna's quotation of Robert Penn Warren: "You live through [. . .] that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History."
* Sometimes you just have to tell it like it is. Michael Hofmann: "[This is] a very bad book on a very terrible subject."
*Andrew Delbanco's review of Mightier than the Sword (David Reynold's book on Harriet Beecher Stowe), which reminds us of her significance: "[she] mobilized public opinion against slavery, and proved, against long odds, 'a white woman's capacity to enter into the subjectivity of black people.'" Imperfectly, to be sure, but quite a feat for its time.
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One of my favorite Kindle subscriptions is to the New York Times Book Review, a once-a-week offering well worth the few bucks it costs. This week's edition had some nice tidbits:
* Curtis Sittenfeld's master class in how to write a negative review (in this case of Monica Ali's new novel about a fictionalized Princess Diana who fakes her own death and moves to America).
* Leah Hager Cohen's simple observation: "We are [. . .] incapable of not doing wrong."
* Danzy Senna's quotation of Robert Penn Warren: "You live through [. . .] that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History."
* Sometimes you just have to tell it like it is. Michael Hofmann: "[This is] a very bad book on a very terrible subject."
*Andrew Delbanco's review of Mightier than the Sword (David Reynold's book on Harriet Beecher Stowe), which reminds us of her significance: "[she] mobilized public opinion against slavery, and proved, against long odds, 'a white woman's capacity to enter into the subjectivity of black people.'" Imperfectly, to be sure, but quite a feat for its time.
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2 Comments:
Sounds interesting. How does this work--you sign up and it's automatically delivered every week and charged to your account? I did break down and subscribe to the NYT online but am ant how the Kindle subscriptions work. Btw, do you have the DX? Susan E
Susan, go to Amazon and search on New York Times Book Review. It will bring up the Kindle edition. It's only 2.99 a month---pretty good deal! I actually wish the WP would do the same.
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