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J. M. Coetzee
'Three Messages': Mexican stories of"Three Messages and a Warning" collects contemporary Mexican short stories of the fantastic, with magical realism, science fiction and other fantasy in the mix.
Posted on 5 February 2012 | 1:01 pm
Philip Glass On His 75th Birthday, Songs OfWhen Philip Glass looks out from the stage this evening at Carnegie Hall, he will see the same audience he's always seen. Unlike most performers of his artistic rank, the composer has remained immune to an aging audience, keeping new generations as engaged as ones previous, and gaining relevance with each passing decade.
Posted on 31 January 2012 | 3:37 pm
In my library: Karen RussellIt was winter in Washington Heights, but Karen Russell channeled her “humid homeland” of Florida to write “Swamplandia,” a fantastical first novel about the alligator-wrestling Bigtree clan that was one of 2011’s major publishing debuts. Not that it’s turned her head: “When I go home to Florida, no...
Posted on 29 January 2012 | 4:19 am
Media Advisory: PEN Protesta! Writers toWorld's Leading Authors Endorse Event, Call for Justice for Murdered Colleagues in El Universal Ad*** PEN Delegation to Hold Press Conference Monday ***TORONTO , Jan. 27, 2012 /CNW/ -WHAT: PEN International ...
Posted on 27 January 2012 | 7:31 pm
Bursting the beautiful bubbleThe standoff at the Jaipur Literature Festival mirrors the crisis of Indian writing, says Mihir S Sharma. Both are unworldly and fragile.
Posted on 27 January 2012 | 6:44 pm
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Author Ha Jin to deliver Steloff lecture -Skidmore’s Frances Steloff Lecture is a highlight of the academic calendar, bringing to the campus such authors as Nobel Prize winners Mario Vargas Llosa, Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, and Saul Bellow, as well as other major ...
Posted on 7 February 2012 | 1:04 pm
Philip Glass On His 75th Birthday, Songs Of"Satyagraha" linked Gandhi's non-violence to the civil disobedience of Martin Luther King, which today reverbs through the Occupy movement; "Waiting for the Barbarians" recontexualizes J.M. Coetzee's book as a political opera pointed at the War ...
Posted on 31 January 2012 | 2:52 pm
Bursting the beautiful bubble - BusinessFrequently, the personality of a writer — J M Coetzee’s terseness, Alexander McCall Smith’s tea-and-crumpets fussiness — meant you went back to what they wrote and discovered additional layers of personality. Either way, just by walking in ...
Posted on 27 January 2012 | 6:39 pm
McIlroy shows Woods and Donald the way -J Kruger (Rsa), T Olesen (Den), W-c Liang (Chn), M Hoey 71 A Hansen (Den), S Garcia (Spa), J Luiten (Ned), C Montgomerie, G Coetzee (Rsa), O Fisher, R Jacquelin (Fra), J Elson, R S Johnson (Swe), K J Choi (Kor), K Horne (Rsa), A Canizares (Spa), L Donald ...
Posted on 26 January 2012 | 11:48 pm
Bound Together: Breaking Those Toxic FamilyI found The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker, sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee for its "restrained tenderness and laconic humor," which seemed ample justification for using it to avoid my own writing.
Posted on 26 January 2012 | 8:20 pm




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JM Coetzee's Cricketing Life –It was with some intrigue that my J.M. Coetzee google alert recently informed me that the elusive author had published something new; this time, apparently, in a contribution to a book celebrating, of all things, Australian ...
Posted on 6 February 2012 | 11:00 am
Sophia's #CBR4 Review #2: ElizabethSophia's #CBR4 Review #2: Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee. The award-winning and highly regarded novel that I just could not truly appreciate. Read the full review here: ...
Posted on 4 February 2012 | 1:55 am
My Life As Seen Through Books: #2“In his new work of fiction, J.M. Coetzee has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale told through an ingenious series of formal addresses. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought, Elizabeth Costello [2003] is, on the ...
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 11:18 pm
Book Review: J.M. Coetzee'sSouth Africa after apartheid is no country for old men in J.M. Coetzee's “Disgrace”
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 11:00 am
Readablog: The Master of Petersburg -The Master of Petersburg - J.M.Coetzee. Every body has to read a Coetzee. Once I decided that, I went in search of one. I picked the Master of Petersburg because it's about a writer, Dostoevsky, none less. No, it's not a ...
Posted on 2 February 2012 | 5:49 am







