By Jonathan Liu 9/11/07 4:38pm

Maladjusted Men (And Gals!) In Mannerist Short Fiction

VANILLA BRIGHT LIKE EMINEM
By Michel Faber
Harcourt, 246 pages, $23

In Vanilla Bright Like Eminem, Michel Faber, author of the sex-stuffed Dickens pastiche The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), crafts opening sentences like an Edwardian newsman-fop transported to today’s metro section, his sturdy bemusement-cum-dismay summoning a sepia age when the spelling Read More

By Sara Nelson 11/11/02 12:00am

Behind Booker Winner: Party-Boy Brit or Unsung Yank?

For a clannish industry that hardly lacks for backbiting and Schadenfreude , publishing is still a sucker for A Little Engine That Could. Especially if it’s one whose chief engineer is a charismatic, young Brit like Jamie Byng, director of tiny, independent Edinburgh-based Canongate Books. Thirty-three years old, garrulous and with a curly mop of Read More