Open Letters in November!
Whether or not variety is the spice of life (monotony is often cruelly underestimated), it’s certainly the rule of the day in the November 2008 issue of Open Letters! Our current crop of articles wanders all over the ideological landscape, carrying only the rucksack of readability and the water bottle of sly humor as provender! Whether it’s Andrew Martin on the team-up of the super-Beats Kerouac and Burroughs, or Karen Vanuska on two books from Sylvia Brownrigg, or Jeff Eaton on the Founding Fathers debating the Constitution, whether it’s Sam Sacks on this year’s Man-Booker Prize winner, or Sara Shaffer on the food
you feed your pets, or Laura Tanenbaum on the essays of Vivian Gornick, there’s something in this issue to interest everybody! November has Euripides
, Napoleon, P.D. James, Neil Gaiman
, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell
(or was it George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh?), and the planet Mars! And everything’s rounded off with a new work by poet Kate Schapira and the penultimate chapter of A Year with the Tudors – truly, a rich and varied feast for readers! And don’t forget to snack on the OLM Blog updated regularly throughout the month.
Also: be sure to join us on Monday, 24 November 2008 at 7 p.m. at the Brookline Booksmith for our next Open Letters
Reading – wine and cheesy bits (and sparkling performances by all our readers!) will be cheerfully provided!
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