Mark's Contemporary Literature Blog November 2004 Archive

Jonathan Rosen's Eve's Apple on the surface appears to be a story about a man obsessed with his girlfriends' eating disorder. What it turns out to be is something much ... Read More

At the age of 74, Ursula K. Le Guin is the author of more than sixty books and she's still delivering the kind of masterful storytelling that made her world ... Read More

Lily Tuck has won the National Book Awards for her novel, The News from Paraguay, an historical epic that tells the story of two lovers during a war in 19th ... Read More

Hollis Gillespie is an international flight attendant and a translator who speaks three languages, a columnist for Creative Loafing, Atlanta's alternative newsweekly, and a frequent NPR commentator. The ... Read More

It's a simple idea. Write a novel in exactly one month. Simple, but by no means easy. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) has grown from its humble 1999 beginnings ... Read More

Of the 94 books submitted by 35 Canadian publishers, Alice Munro's Runaway scooped the $25,000 award for the best Canadian novel or short story collection in English. Alice Munro is a ... Read More

Hargrove Anderson Medical, a pharmaceutical company looking for perfectly healthy "normals" to participate in Phase I studies of their latest experimental drugs. Billy Schine, a debt-ridden and disillusioned Harvard grad signs ... Read More

With his sharp-edged wit, Roddy Doyle introduced Henry Smart--adventurer, IRA assassin, and lover. At once an epic and a prophetic portrait of Irish history, both past and present, A Star ... Read More

Ringworld's Children returns Larry Niven devotees to the Ringworld, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth that encircles a distant star, where war and a powerful ... Read More