by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 18, 2011 | reading |
The Pulitzer Prize in Fiction was awarded today to A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, “an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed.” For more...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 17, 2011 | accumulation, details, reviews |
Sherry Turkle asked scientists, humanists, artists, and designers to “trace the power of objects in their lives, objects that connect them to ideas and people.” In Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, published in 2007, you’ll find thirty-four...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 13, 2011 | reviews |
Excited to have my most recent review picked up by the National Book Critics Circle and Powell’s Books as the Review-a-Day for today:
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 12, 2011 | first novels |
Spring Contrary has sprung… And with a brand new look. Plus five book reviews, one of which is mine on Heather Newton’s debut novel, Under the Mercy Trees: I once stood at my grandfather’s knee, watching him do tricks with rocks. Later I backpacked by...
