Three Monkeys Online - the free current affairs & arts magazine

The ten finalists for the 3% translated book award - http://bit.ly/aTjcvt #
The Elegant Variation’s summer of debuts - http://bit.ly/9xhg76 #
New post up at the TMO book blog - ‘The House of the Mosque’ by Kader Abdolah http://bit.ly/cjwXbi #
Tim Parks on the ‘dull new global novel’ http://bit.ly/8X92EC #
King Lear, madness and my grandmother http://bit.ly/bFuaVn #
Taking Martin [...]

‘Don’t be one of those writers who sentence themselves to a lifetime of sucking up to Nabokov’ - Geoff Dyer http://bit.ly/d51hP4 #

Powered by Twitter Tools.

I finished Kader Abdolah’s The House of the Mosque on the same day that organised celebrations (and crackdowns on civil unrest) took place in Tehran to mark the anniversary of the 1979 revolution which swept Mohammad-Rez? Sh?h Pahlavi from power and led to the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Looking at the pictures [...]

TMO review of Anne Enright’s ‘The wig my father wore’ - http://bit.ly/bbFXiL #
rt @maudnewton Recordings of F. Scott Fitzgerald reading Shakespeare: http://bit.ly/cdBBpF (via @Condalmo) #
Book Fox on the predictive power of book reviews http://bit.ly/bYJaAi #
Lizzy Siddal is accepting questions for a Kader Abdolah interview, author of ‘House of the Mosque’ http://bit.ly/aLPoJZ #
BBC Radio [...]

Coming off the back of reading more than my fair share of European crime-fiction (culminating with Stieg Larsson’s posthumuous sales-phenomenon The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) - a genre where plot, reasonably enough, is tight and pragmatic, where the reader must above all else understand what’s happening - it was a palate-cleansing delight to dive [...]

#Amis “But it was just the empty Echo of repetition, of a book rewritten; from his father still only silence” http://bit.ly/bi8Cbi #

Powered by Twitter Tools.