Archive for September 14, 2010
FAME: A NOVEL IN NINE EPISODES by Daniel Kehlmann
I was recently talking to my nephew. He’s a new college freshman and was heading off to school. “Do you ever think about reinventing yourself,” I asked him. I was making dinner and he was sitting in the kitchen, keeping me company. His mouth dropped open and his eyes grew wide when I asked him the question. “I mean,” I continued, “you are going to a place where you are not known by anyone. You have no biography. You can be whatever and whomever you wish to be. Have you thought about that?” He nodded his head. “I think about it all the time,” he confessed.
I was reminded of this recent exchange while reading Daniel Kehlmann’s new book, FAME, as translated from the German original by Carol Brown Janeway.
September 14, 2010
Tags: Contemporary, Literary Posted in: Award Winning Author, Contemporary, Humorous, Literary, Satire, Translated, Unique Narrative, World Literature 
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MAN IN THE WOODS by Scott Spencer
Scott Spencer’s MAN IN THE WOODS is a novel that chronicles the life of Paul Phillips, a man who has been on his own since he was sixteen years old. Paul is both a simple and a complex man – simple because he has relied on good luck and good looks to open many doors, and complicated because he is an artisan of deep convictions that he is unwilling to compromise. He is not a man to say very much but a lot goes on in his mind that does not come out in words. He creates beautiful furniture, crafts, and remodels with wood. Each type of wood speaks to him in its own way. He has never given a lot of thought to his life. Where he is and what he’s doing have a way of simply falling into place. He has traveled around a lot, living in Alaska, South Dakota, Colorado and currently in rural New York State.
September 14, 2010
Tags: Contemporary Posted in: Contemporary, Good and Evil, Life Choices, NE & New York No Comments
