Although people are sick of “best of” lists by now, especially when you throw in “best of the decade” lists, I always wait until the end of the year before posting my favorite books of the year. Given that I tend to do a lot of reading over the holidays, I fear that if I […]
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In announcing that Herta Müller won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy said simply that she is someone who, with her poetry and “the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.” In The Appointment, the work of hers most recently translated into English, Müller shows that landscape is not limited […] With Springsteen and Dylan both releasing new CDs in 2009, you would think that would simplify my choices for album of the year. But Working on a Dream ranks as a below average Springsteen release and I’m enough of a Grinch that even Dylan doesn’t make me want to buy a CD of Christmas songs. […] |
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