New Yorker Book Club

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/bookclub/index

Hey guys, The New Yorker has a Book Club where they invite an author to pick a book once a month. April is Lorrie Moore! This might be a good resource if we get stumped.

Book Club Field Trip

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens says it has acquired a cache of 35 letters that Charles Dickens wrote from about 1838 to 1869.

http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=596

Minutes from January Book Club Meeting

Here are some notes on ideas/research for future book club pics:

[this is teeming with mistakes, misspellings etc..]

Authors:

Lionel Shriver

Lourie Moore

Mary McCarthy

Thomas Pynchon - "V"

Mildred Pierce

Julio Cortazar

Tom McCarthy - "Remainder"

Blake Nelson

Robin McKinley

Graham Green

Richard Price "Hush Life"

John Cheever "Ballet Park"

Erica Jong

Here are some random titles, help:

"The Source"

"Paranoid Park"

"Tapping"

Research:

Screen Adaptations, Plays, Noir

Feeling sorry for ol' Djuna

I was looking at Rosseau paintings at MoMa over the weekend thinking about Robin Vote, I also remembered she was compared to a carnivorous flower...

"...Like a painting by the Douanier Rousseau She seemed to live in a jungle trapped in a drawing room"

Cool Blog

http://www.lettersofnote.com


Check out the letterhead page. Thanks Elizabeth!

Library Bar

http://www.librarybarla.com/index_main.html

Round up

Hey I got the book. Whoa. What do you guys think so far?