The Book We're Talking About

April 29, 2013 Subscribe · Forward The Book We're Talking About The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud Knopf, $25.95 April 30, 2013 What is it about? The book is about a a middle-aged teacher's (Nora's) relationship with a student's family. It also covers the much broader topics of what it's like to be both an artist and a woman. Why are we talking about it? The book had been getting a ton of very early buzz, so we felt inclined to pick it up. Messud's last book, The Emperor's Children, was also a bestseller. Who wrote it? Continue reading... PHOTOS: How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin (NEW BOOK) LOOK: Did These Homes Inspire 'The Great Gatsby?' Tom Sizemore's Battle With Drugs Detailed In New Memoir Best New Books Out This Week 7 Ways To Negotiate A Higher Salary Best New Books Out This Week 8 Reasons You SHOULDN'T Buy Organic 7 Unhelpful Tips For Writers Why Men And Women Have Sex MICHAEL ROTH Review of David Nirenberg's Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition David Nirenberg's Anti-Judaism is a thorough, scholarly account of why, in the history of the West, Jews have been so easy to hate. And this story goes back a very long way. Continue reading... JOSH HANAGARNE The Bookstore That Changed My Life Most of the time when people tell me something changed their life, it's hard to tell if anything has actually changed. But Mr. Clawson and that store changed my life. Continue reading... DAMIAN BARR Surviving Margaret Thatcher Late last Monday morning, my phone bleeped a morbid morse code as tweets and texts surged in. "Thatcher dead!", "She's gone!" and "Talk about timing!" because my memoir was about to be published. Continue reading... ANNE MARGARET DANIEL Babe Ruth, Meet Jay Gatsby Not many people know that Fitzgerald wrote a section for The Great Gatsby in which his characters decide, one hot summer afternoon, to go and watch a ballgame. Continue reading... MICHAEL CAROSONE What Is Queer Poetry? In celebration of National Poetry Month, I'm sharing this project of mine, which I completed for a poetry course that I took last semester. I created a handbook that asks and answers the question "what is queer poetry?" For this project I interviewed five queer poets. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003