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Tag Archives: novels
Beyond Gravity’s Rainbow
Last week, Penguin Random House announced a new novel from Thomas Pynchon. The novel, his first in a decade, is called Shadow Ticket and is set to publish on 7 Oct. 2025. PRH’s copy: Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going … Continue reading
“The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence.”
“Description of things and atmosphere” from the notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The island floated, a boat becalmed, upon the almost perceptible curve of the world.” “The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked … Continue reading
Which book do you prefer
Which Book Do You Prefer was created by Aris Catsambas basically and asks visitors to pick their favorite from a pairing of novels – it requests only that you vote if you’ve read both of the books in question, but otherwise … Continue reading
Life is stranger than fiction
Forgive the pun, but in this case life is truly stranger than the fictional book above. A fascinating handwritten manuscript of the French novel L’Étranger translated as The Outsider/The Stranger by Albert Camus has sold for €500,000 ($544,000) at auction in Paris. There is little … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Writing
Tagged Albert Camus, France, novels, The Stranger
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad…
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. I first read One Hundred Years of Solitude during my first year at university when I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Film, movies, South America, Writing
Tagged Columbia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, magical realism, novels
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Books on Maps
If you stop by TBTP regularly, you probably know how I feel about maps and literary websites that manage to combine books AND maps. Books On Maps: is a new project that is mashing up cartography and novels. You don’t … Continue reading
The water was black and warm
Much has been written about the great American novelist Cormac McCarthy since his recent death. I have long admired his writing, but often found his books to be grim. Ironically, my favorite work is The Road, which is about a dark a … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 