Here’s Larry/What to Read?

And Here’s Larry!
He lit up American poetry. He opened the City Lights Bookstore and its publishing arm City Lights Books, which published Ginsberg “Howl” and subsequently published the works of Rebecca Brown, whom novelist/reviewer Dale Peck has called one of the nation’s greatest novelists. The person is Lawrence Ferlinghetti and he talks with Nicholas Wroe.

What to Read on Vacation?\
If that question troubles you, give Alex Clark a check. He talked with critics, booksellers, and novelists about their picks for summer reading. You might get an idea or two.

Great Book Site/The Amazing Ozick

Great Book Site
Michael Silverblatt, along with Melinda Siegel, have created a great site for readers and writers of series fiction and poetry, and it’s connected with public radio. It’s Bookworm, and it’s a part of the Arts & Culture segments offered by KCRW. This month he has exclusive interviews with Alice Quinn, Irvin Feldman, David Mitchell, and T.C. Boyle.

The Amazing Ozick
In her book of literary criticism, entitled The Canon as Cannon, Cynthia Ozick is a “champion of the elevated and an apologist for the complicated,” writes Walter Kirn. In her first chapter, she writes beautiful of the genius of the too-soon dead Susan Sontag.