Her entry begins:
I have about twenty pages left of The Italian Teacher by Tom Rachman and I can’t wait to get to them. In fact later tonight, I will, in the tub. That’s my treat to myself, along with a glass of Malbec and foaming epsom salts. His novel, The Imperfectionists was a big, full read and so I was excited to dive into his latest. Rachman’s like a wily and agile shortstop who covers all the bases (character, setting, plot), bringing us the story of a famous painter and his son. Bear Bavinsky is the larger-than-life artist who marries and breeds as easily as he uncaps a tube of paint, and Pinch is his first son, who...[read on]About Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes), from the publisher:
A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaperVisit Lorna Landvik's website.columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world
With her customary warmth and wit, Lorna Landvik summons a lifetime at once lost and recovered, a complicated past that speaks with knowing eloquence to a confused present. Her topical but timeless Chronicles of a Radical Hag reminds us—sometimes with a subtle touch, sometimes with gobsmacking humor—of the power of words and of silence, as well as the wonder of finding in each other what we never even knew we were missing.
My Book, The Movie: Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with Recipes).
Writers Read: Lorna Landvik.
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