Affairs at the Jupiter hotel

This month, the Book Club is reading Shirley Hazzard’s “The Transit of Venus.” This fine novel takes its name from an infrequent celestial event wherein the planet Venus passes between the earth and the sun….Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Allegra Goodman, the author of this week’s story, “La Vita Nuova,” exchanged e-mails with Cressida Leyshon, a fiction editor at the magazine, about art, writing, and being a person on whom “nothing is lost.” This…Read the whole article at The Newyorker

Landmark new offices, a minimalist cave and the famous Yellow Treehouse Restaurant are among outstanding designs recognised in the 2010 New Zealand Architecture Awards. Read the whole article at The Dexigner

8220;For an eiii-dee,” they were saying. “We need to see Lisette Mulvey.” This was unexpected. In second-period class, at 9:40 A.M., on some damn Monday in some damn winter month she’d lost track of, when even the year—a “new . . .Read the whole article at The Newyorker

The second volume of Kynaston’s epic social history of postwar Britain covers a period of stabilization: jobs abounded; food rationing ended; and though the Conservatives’ victory in 1951 was fuelled partly by Churchill’s derision of the “Queuetopia” created by Labour, his party did . . .Read the whole article at The Newyorker

I wrote to Danticat today, offering my congratulations on her MacArthur “genius” grant, and asked if she would be kind enough to call to let us know what she was thinking. She called me this…Read the whole article at The Newyorker Related Blogs Related Blogs on Fiction Welcome to MegCabot.com – Meg's Diary » Blog [...]