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...Coetzee almost never gives interviews, so I counted myself very lucky when he granted me an audience in the early 1990s. We met in his office in Cape Town, the novelist a pale and austere presence in his tweeds and corduroys, and I under strict instructions from his agent to avoid questions about the son who fell from a balcony, the ex-wife who died of cancer and the manner in which these private tragedies might have influenced his most recent writings. We were to talk only of literature, but my opening question was greeted by dead silence. Coetzee...
There's no point looking to Coetzee for clarification. He failed to show up for his Booker award ceremonies, and who knows whether he'll show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 for his Nobel. The protagonist of his latest novel, Elizabeth Costello, herself a postmodern novelist, might offer some clues as to his thoughts. On being picked for a literary prize, she says, "I should have asked them to forget the ceremony and send the check in the mail...
...person Albom is a small, intense guy with a large, handsome head; he bears a strong resemblance to a bobble-head doll. He has become the king of a certain highly potent brand of uplifting, inspirational wisdom--in the words of his friend the novelist Amy Tan, he is "the rabbi of everybody." Maybe it's an easy, sentimental kind of wisdom, but it is a kind for which there is an obvious, urgent, demonstrable need. And Albom does his best to live by it. He used the profits from Morrie to pay his professor's medical bills...
...Barnes & Noble from work to catch urban fiction novelist Candace Bushnell, who also wrote the Sex in the City novel, discussing her latest work Trading Up—a book about a distressed Victoria’s Secret model searching for love in her Manolo Blahnik heels. Upon asking a clerk about The Nanny Diaries in an attempt to flaunt my knowledge about the genre, I was told that since the book was two years older, it had been relegated to the standard fiction department. Apparently urban fiction goes in and out of style as fast as designer couture...
...beef tartare amuse-bouche to the spiced Moroccan lamb with couscous--pronounced, as the Martha Stewart-style hostess is careful to note, "coush-coush." The dinner guests are an array of gabby intellectuals loosely modeled on real-life intellectuals--a Christopher Hitchens-type British lefty, a Tom Clancy-like novelist with pro-war views, a Middle East expert who recalls the late Edward Said. They sit around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence to vegan diets, there's a surprise guest...