false 268746 27 female Brooklyn, NY 08/2007 11/2009 48 87 79 true 5626265 read 5 true 563403 currently-reading 3 true 563402 to-read 2 false 3987326 rereading 1 false 3987333 hijacking-my-life The Translator (Paperback) by John Crowley]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78864396 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171576360s/107830.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:13:06 -0800 Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics) by Mavis Gallant]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78859898 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172967556s/233987.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:12:08 -0800 more...]]> Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) by John Edward Williams]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78859848 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172352012s/166997.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:51 -0800 Autobiography of Red (Paperback) by Anne Carson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72443025 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256116407s/61049.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:29:57 -0800 Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (Hardcover) by Elizabeth Bishop]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72443008 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256132457s/3120276.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:38:05 -0700 The Collected Prose (Paperback) by Elizabeth Bishop]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72441024 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171896768s/125218.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:36:04 -0700 more...]]> Oscar and Lucinda (Paperback) by Peter Carey]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72440442 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173712561s/316496.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:09:33 -0700 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64658796 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166509578s/12749.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:11:07 -0700 The Blindfold Test (Paperback) by Barry Schechter]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63716024 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255572510s/6163735.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:28:16 -0700 huge fan of Melville House and will read pretty much anything they publish. Plus, the reviews their newsletter linked to were comparing The Blindfold Test to Hunter S. Thompson and Pynchon. While Schechter does possess some of Thompson's keyed-up elan and Pynch...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51798847 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TaFQnuA7L._SL75_.jpg 268746 Liz http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201535797p2/268746.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/268746-liz Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:28:46 -0700 Tom wrote: "Your review is even better than the one in NYT. You've said what he (can't remember his name off top of head) wanted to, or said in a tone he wanted to, but couldn't because, after all, it was the..."

Thanks so much for the compliment, Tom! I think you're right about Updike; I'm always forgetting (while arguing with people that he was a hack) about what a superb art critic he was. I also agree about Cheever and Welty being the best Americans. I also really love Grace Paley, but for entirely different reasons. Reading the short fiction in the New Yorker now makes me really depressed. Everything feels so slight and careless. I'm waiting for someone to come along and reinvigorate the form.]]>