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Unpunctuated Equilibrium
Dear Jess Row, This week a continuing education class I teach in contemporary American short stories at the local community college read your story “The Call of Blood” from the 2011 BASS...
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On Copying, Copyright, and Fairness: A Response to David Lowery
I’m not a musician. At first glance, then, it seems a little odd that I’ve taken so much time to write a lengthy response to David Lowery’s letter to Emily White about filesharing and the effect it’s...
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Change is coming soon
Fall 2013: the first cold nights are upon us…Occupy just celebrated its second anniversary…New York seems poised to elect a progressive mayor for the first time in a generation or two…and I’m busy with...
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2013: My Year in Reading
“‘You seem fully immersed in a study of oppression. Any reason for this?’ ‘Well, I do live in the world.’” Rebecca Lee, Bobcat and Other Stories. (Algonquin) “Step by step, she forced her husband’s...
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GWB
“As she leaves the toll booth and pulls toward the right lane the traffic gains momentum, and the great cables of the bridge rise up on either side, like giant wings, like Gothic arches. She thinks,...
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Publisher’s Weekly on Your Face in Mine
(Starred review) “This furiously smart first novel from Row (who wrote the short story collection The Train to Lo Wu) opens up difficult conversations about race and identity. The narrator, Kelly...
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Booklist on #YourFaceinMine
(Starred review) “In Row’s disquieting near-future medical tale, 38-year-old Kelly Thorndike learns that all things are fungible after he has a chance encounter with a former high-school classmate. The...
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Remembering Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer, who died Sunday at the astonishing age of 90, was one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century. She had an instantly recognizable touch: her sentences form a verbal slipstream,...
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Where to find me
Your Face in Mine comes out this week, and I’m happy that already the book has gotten some great attention. And started some arguments—as expected. I’ll be doing a series of readings and events this...
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Where I am and where I’ve been
Some updates on Your Face in Mine: Much gratitude to everyone who has come out to the events so far, and particularly to the organizers and booksellers who put in so much time. Likewise to the...
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