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Editor March 3, 2008 | 2 books mentioned 2

io9 offers up “The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life,” from Frankenstein to Pattern Recognition. (via)
Cathleen Schine on the charms of Peter Carey
The “Thomas Bernhard cult” claims a new initiate.
F.O.T.M. (Friend of The Millions) Lydia Millet talks about “endangered species, the idea of motherhood, and her stint at Hustler.”
“Why do scribblers make drinking their second art? For one thing, it primes them for their task.” Writers and booze.
Some American Studies undergrads at The University of Virginia have put together an online exhibit titled “The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s.”
NPR’s “In Character” segment considers Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne.

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heather (errantdreams) says:

March 3, 2008 at 6:21 am

I'll definitely have to check out the life-changing SF list. There's an awful lot of great SF that I've never gotten around to reading; maybe it'll give me a concrete place to start!
Jill says:

March 3, 2008 at 7:37 pm

The online exhibit titled "The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930's" is certainly a poor reflection on the education received by the students at the Univ. of Virginia. I gave up counting the typographical errors, and the writing was very poor for college-level students. Not to mention the astounding lack of research that obviously went into this project – the overly simplistic explanations of the Great Depression and the revisionist history was very disappointing to read. I would ask for my child's tuition back if she attended the Univ. of Virginia.