Monday, February 24, 2014

Books at the Sydney Morning Herald

Author Elizabeth GilbertElizabeth Gilbert high res 2014.jpg Best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert talks about her favourite books.

Impossible question of trust

Author Tom Rob Smith KAREN HARDY About four years ago author Tom Rob Smith received a telephone call from his mother.

Bookshop

Bookshop Leunig Lucy Sussex M Mag dinkus. Thuy On On the shelf this week: Close Up, Mandela and When Mr Dog Bites.

The stories we love to tell each other

<p> Reviewer: MARK THOMAS In a chronological survey of Australian culture, why is 1960 omitted, as are 2001 and 2011?

A son's sorrows

For Today I Am A Boy by Kim Fu (Random House Aust) Cameron Woodhead With her debut novel For Today I Am A Boy, Chinese-Canadian writer Kim Fu has attracted comparisons to Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and to bestselling author Amy Tan. They're big, slightly facile claims, which this delicate queer bildungsroman at least partly justifies.

All joking aside

Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart (Penguin Aust) Owen Richardson The immigrant misadventures of earlier works are replaced by an ambition to reveal the pain behind an author's humour.

Fighting prejudice

The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd is published by Headline, $29.99. Juliette Hughes 'All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet from off our necks …'' (Sarah Grimke, letter to the president of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, 1838).

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