Shortly after noon on a recent Tuesday, novelist Peter Carey was sipping rosé at the Soho Mexican restaurant La
Esquina. When The Observer arrived, a few minutes late for our interview, he asked us to join him in a glass. An afternoon at the cafe was a welcome diversion for the two-time Booker Prize winner—for Read More
The judges of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction released their shortlist this morning, leaving just six novels in the running. The novels on the list do not include David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, a favorite upon the release of the longlist according to literary-minded gamblers.
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On Monday, Sept. 22, Chelsea’s 192 Books on 10th Avenue was packed for a party celebrating Granta: 108 Chicago, the London-based quarterly’s issue dedicated to the Windy City, featuring pieces by Don DeLillo, Aleksander Hemon, George Saunders, Sandra Cisneros and Stuart Dybek, among many others. “I feel like Chicago is having its moment right now,” Read More
HIS ILLEGAL SELF
By Peter Carey
Alfred A. Knopf, 272 pages, $24.95
Peter Carey is an expat Australian who has lived in New York City for almost 20 years, and it would seem that he’s homesick. Not just for his country, but for what he was when he lived there: a boy, Read More
If you want an idea how rough it can be to enter the luxury-apartment market in Manhattan, consider the case of Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts.
She was hardly slumming it in her former digs at the same West End Avenue rental tower that fellow television host Kelly Ripa once called home—though Ms. Ripa, Read More
Given the publishing-world scuttlebutt last week, you might have thought the P.E.N.-sponsored tribute to Samuel Beckett, held at Town Hall on Monday night, Dec. 9, was subtitled “Waiting for Barney.” Former Grove publisher Barney Rosset, Beckett’s original U.S. publisher, was not initially asked to participate in the event, which featured such Beckett-friendly literary types as Read More
