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Return of a Roth … necessary reading … rest, Peter

April 7, 2014April 7, 2014 by Nick Owchar, posted in A Game of Thrones, Henry Roth, Kai Maristed, Lijia Zhang, Peter Mathiessen, Publishing, Reading, W.W. Norton, Writing

Of the Roth triumvirate (Philip, Joseph, and Henry), Henry usually gets overshadowed by the other two. After all, how can a maker of bildungsroman tales compete with portraits of a failing empire or the romantic uses of a piece of liver? Well, the work of Henry Roth -- lyric chronicler of childhood in Call It Sleep -- … Continue reading Return of a Roth … necessary reading … rest, Peter

You didn’t get rid of that book, did you?

March 19, 2014March 19, 2014 by Nick Owchar, posted in Book reviews, Books, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Myth -- nonfiction, Myth general, mythology, Ukraine, W.W. Norton

Yes, I nearly did. Elizabeth Wayland Barber's The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance (W.W. Norton) almost escaped my home. It wasn't any fault on the book's part--on mine. Have you done this before? I hadn't picked it up since it was published early last year, and as I went about … Continue reading You didn’t get rid of that book, did you?