Assorted Odd Ends with Occasional Stuff on the Side
Friday, August 31, 2007
Nobel Prize-Winning Novelists
As part of my long-anticipated post-retirement reading program, I've begun to seek out and read works by Nobel Prize winning novelists whose work I hadn't previously read. Over the past few months, I've read the following:
1968 -- Yasunari Kawabata, Thousand Cranes
1978 -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Satan in Goray and The Magician of Lublin
1988 -- Naguib Mahfouz, Midaq Alley, The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street), and Arabian Nights and Days
2001 -- V. S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur, Miguel Street, and A House for Mr. Biswas
Science and Steepleflower by Forrest Gander Fuck You -- Aloha -- I Love You by Juliana Spahr The Alphabet of Desire by Barbara Hamby Furious Cooking by Maureen Seaton Glacier Wine by Maura Stanton shattered sonnets love cards and other off and back handed importunities by Olena Kalytiak Davis The Snow Watcher by Chase Twichell Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968 - 1993 by Heather McHugh Chromatic by H. L. Hix Interior with Sudden Joy by Brenda Shaughnessy Tulip Farms & Leper Colonies by Charles Harper Webb Pieces of Air in the Epic by Brenda Hillman Still Life with Waterfall by Eamon Grennan A Little White Shadow by Mary Ruefle radi os by Ronald Johnson Eunoia by Christian Bok Crystallography by Christian Bok i-ROBOT Poetry by Jason Christie Wide Slumber for Lepidopterists by a. rawlings
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes England, England by Julian Barnes The Emigrants by S. E. Sebald Austerlitz by S. E. Sebald The Sea by John Banville The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
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And, replacing my disintegrating 1889 copy of one of my favorite casual-reading poems, a good paperback edition of William Cowper's The Task.