This is no antiquated screed against technology: e-books are eliminating the literary pick-up line.
In desperate need of a literary pick-me-up, I purchased it.
The Whites by Richard Price Though the reasons for his literary picks are rarely explained, it's safe to say that the unfortunate contemporary debate over police-civilian relationships might have motivated the president to pick up Richard Price's novel about a South Bronx cop trying to find redemption after a new case brings back memories of an old mistake. .
From those 300 nominations, an even more secretive group, the MacArthur judges — 12 academic and/or literary heavyweights – pick the winners.
The judges of the Man Booker Prize, Britain's top literary award, picked up on this heated ambivalence last month when they said that the novel "Vernon God Little," which won the prize this year and which savagely satirizes American culture, "reflects our alarm but also our fascination with modern America".
Soon after, Eagleton, a feisty Marxist academic best known for his 1983 book "Literary Theory," picked up Amis's comments in a new introduction to the reissue of his 1991 book "Ideology: An Introduction," along with Amis's further musings in that interview on the demographics of Europe.
He then spent the next 30 pages absolutely shredding my literary asshole, picking apart almost everything I said, or so it felt.
With respect to crime books that show a genuine literary gift, my pick of the current batch would have to be Gene Kerrigan's "The Midnight Choir," starring Inspector Synnott.
I know in my own writing that the term "hybrid essay" helps me avoid the perilous task of trying to fit my work neatly into a single category of nonfiction: personal essay, memoir, lyric essay, meditation, braided essay, literary journalism, biography — pick just one.
