While I fundamentally like the idea behind The New York Times Book Review's weekly By the Book-feature I often find myself disappointed/baffled by it, completely unfamiliar with/uninterested in the sometimes not so literary types that are featured.
Not so this week, when it's Can't and Won't-author Lydia Davis who plays along.
Great to hear she's reading more Dag Solstad -- Armand V., one of my favorites (and still not translated into English ...).
Fun to hear she can see Bouvard and Pécuchet as favorite fictional heroes.
And neat that she's got a Wolf Haas on deck "in preparation for a trip to Austria and Germany" -- though I really hope/think she should get her hands on his The Weather Fifteen Years Ago (which really sounds like her kind of thing, too).
Not so this week, when it's Can't and Won't-author Lydia Davis who plays along.
Great to hear she's reading more Dag Solstad -- Armand V., one of my favorites (and still not translated into English ...).
Fun to hear she can see Bouvard and Pécuchet as favorite fictional heroes.
And neat that she's got a Wolf Haas on deck "in preparation for a trip to Austria and Germany" -- though I really hope/think she should get her hands on his The Weather Fifteen Years Ago (which really sounds like her kind of thing, too).