Tag: Miguel de Cervantes
In 2006 David Foster Wallace wrote in the New York Times Magazine that you can appreciate tennis great Roger Federer even more “if you’ve played enough tennis to understand the impossibility of what you just saw him do.” I feel that way about Gustave Flaubert. It’s possible that you have to have worked as a … Read More
I will be blogging this week about my new novel In the Land of the Living, just released by Little Brown. Here is an excerpt of the first blog, which appears on the website of the Jewish Book Council:
Remember Mandy Patinkin’s character Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride? When Montoya was a child, the story … Read More
“Ever since Gutenberg,” Robert Alter writes, “the conditions of mechanical reproduction made it necessary for the individual artist to swim against a vast floodtide of trash out of all proportion to anything that had existed before in cultural history….” And when the furnace of time has digested the trash-heap of twentieth-century literary criticism, one hopes … Read More