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- Life Goes On by Hans Keilson - Bookforum Magazine
Comedy, a darkly humorous tale that earned Keilson comparisons to Franz Kafka, is about a Dutch couple who hide a Jew in their house, only to have him die under their roof, causing all sorts of problems (namely, how do they dispose of the body without the Nazis discovering they were hiding it) Death, on the other hand, is an even stranger
- Fiction – Bookforum Magazine
Leppin, immediately recognizable in his large hats and loud ties, captivated listeners, among them Max Brod and Franz Kafka, with readings from his fiction and poetry at the Café Arco Unfortunately, however, he could not tear himself away from Prague
- Culture – Bookforum Magazine
F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night served as a muse for Geoff Dyer’s last work of fiction, Paris, Trance (1998), but the author admits that Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, the inspiration for his latest effort, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (Pantheon, $24), never held much meaning for him
- Traveler of the Century by Andres Neuman, trans. by Nick Caistor and . . .
The term magical realism was coined in German (magischer Realismus, by the art historian Franz Roh in 1925) and is most often applied to Latin American authors (of which Neuman is one) Whether Traveler of the Century should be described as a work of magical realism is of no real importance
- Joseph ONeil discusses a radical bourgeois experiment; Karl Ove . . .
Marlon James pays homage to Franz Ross’s 1974 novel, Oreo Ron Charles wishes that writers who have received negative reviews would talk back to their critics more often “I wish more authors were willing to respond in public to reviews of their books
- Reuters reporters freed; Michael Ondaatje on his new novel
Recode’s Peter Kafka reports that Amazon is considering paying online publishers that use affiliate links, like BuzzFeed and the New York Times’s Wirecutter G O Media, formerly Gizmodo Media, has hired Paul Maidment as editor in chief
- Culture – Bookforum Magazine
The online edition of Bookforum Magazine Writing is eerie Considered as a technique or technology, it seems almost magical: a teleportation of ideas and facts from one mind to another, via a few scribbled marks on a page
- J. G. Ballard’s memoir ponders the connection between his childhood . . .
Practically the opposite of a tell-all, J G Ballard’s memoir, Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, suggests that this is an author who said all he wanted to say in his fiction
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