MEMBER BLOG TAG: per petterson
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 5:37PM | | | | Per Petterson and Marilyn Robinson | Tags: Marilynee Robinson, Per Petterson, fiction, voice, family,
research, style
| | | Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead) must be on everyone’s top 10 list of living American novelists, as well as on a top 10 list of teachers of fiction (Iowa). I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never read anything by either her or her companion panelist here, the Norwegian novelist Per Petterson (Out Stealing Horses), a failing that I intend to remedy.
So the following brief report is about the event, alone—a panel discussion on the voice in fiction, inspiration, attitude toward characters, and principal themes, which was briskly and very knowledgeably moderated by Radhika Jones, managing editor of The Paris Review.
Having run over to Lincoln Center from an... | | | | | | | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:33PM | | | | Barnaby and the Dermatologist | Tags: History, Truth, Fiction, Arthur Japin, Laila Lalami, Imma Monsó, Michael Wallner, Colum McCann, Brecht, Kwasi Boachi, Lluís-Anton Baulenas, Moses Isegawa, Carlo Lucarelli, Per Petterson, Francine Prose, dermatologist, 192
| | | Barnaby Sandwich rolled out of bed this morning at the crack of dawn—not literally, but for him—and traveled uptown to speak to some high school students about a book he had written. These dozen teenagers, up, like Barnaby, since before any merciful God could have intended, and in receipt of their college acceptance letters, nevertheless managed to keep their eyes open, which is one eye more than Barnaby managed. One of the young men asked Barnaby what year he had graduated from their shared high school, and then noted that he had been in kindergarten in the year named. So do the young flowers dislodge the corpses of their forebears—before falling from the stalk in their turn.
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