Though I'm not in the newspaper trade anymore, where interesting people and topics flow constantly through the door, I'm at the next best thing, a powerhouse liberal arts college. The flow continues as brilliant minds visit — not in the hopes of getting good attention on the front page -- but simply in order to … Continue reading A shield for your thoughts … and Daniel Mendelsohn
Category: Book reviews
If critics don’t understand it, why did Catton’s book win a major prize?
This fall, Eleanor Catton released a big beast of a novel, The Luminaries, and picked up the highest honor in literature, the Man Booker Prize (more important than the Pulitzer or the Nobel, in my humble opinion). At the time of the prize announcement, I was spending a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms … Continue reading If critics don’t understand it, why did Catton’s book win a major prize?
Season’s readings: coming soon to Call of the Siren
As the calendar year nears the end, media book departments have one goal in common: to produce lists of books to give as gifts and for one's own reading pleasure. Piles of books, endless lists, captions, the mad rush to meet deadlines ... ah, I remember it well (too well!). Not to be outdone by … Continue reading Season’s readings: coming soon to Call of the Siren
Nick Owchar 
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