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Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question Wins the Booker Prize
The Guardian and other sources report that Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Finkler Question. The novel, which we haven’t read, is apparently a comic piece about...
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Book Acquired, 2.03.2012 — Edward St. Aubyn Edition
Picador has put together all four of Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels in anticipation of the final novel, At Last, which debuts later this month from FS&G. I haven’t read St. Aubyn’s...
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Esi Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues (Book Acquired, 2.10.2012)
I try to spend 10 or 20 minutes with every book that comes in to Biblioklept World Headquarters—assessing plot and prose, trying to get a sense of the potential audience for each volume, etc....
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Hilary Mantel Wins the 2012 Booker Prize
The Guardian and other sources report that Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize for her novel Bring Up The Bodies. Bring Up the Bodies continues Mantel’s reappraisal of the Tudor saga...
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André Brink’s Philida (Book Acquired, Some Time in January 2013).
André Brink’s Philida is new in handsome trade paperback from Vintage. Love the cover on this one, and the story seems intriguing. From the Man Booker Prize site (the book was longlisted last year):...
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Bring Up the Bodies (Book Acquired and Sort of Reviewed, 4.23.2013)
I wrote a three-part review of Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies when it came out in hardback last year, which I’ll cannibalize right after this short paragraph, which is lazy, but hey, sorry....
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Lydia Davis Wins the 2013 Man Booker International Prize
Lydia Davis has won the 2013 Man Booker International Prize—and the £60,000 that go with it. Here’s Davis’s short story “Money” from Samuel Johnson Is Indignant (and also in The Collected Stories of...
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