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Federico Moramarco
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Inviting people to read reviews
Several of my friends complained to me about having to supply lots of personal profile information just to read my reviews on this site. Is there any way to invite friends to read reviews without…Continue
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Started Oct 5, 2010
Is there a way to get rss subscribers to your book blog?
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I'd like to suggest to friends that they "subscribe" to my blog. Is there a way to do this?Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Tina "The Book Lady" Sep 9, 2010.
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Federico Moramarco posted a blog postReview of Antonia Fraser, Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter
Hemingway wrote somewhere that when two people are deeply in love, it is Inevitable that their story will end in tragedy, since one will quite likely out-live the other. I’ve been thinking about this recently because in the last few years I’ve read a handful of books by widows who were in deeply reciprocated love relationships and who write about those relationships in retrospect with great affection and a deep sense of loss. These books include Joan Didion’s The Year of Living Dangerously,…See More
Federico Moramarco posted a blog postPaul Auster's Newest
Reading a Paul Auster novel is something like listening to a well-orchestrated , multi-layered musical composition where certain melodies and motifs recur with substantial elaboration and variation. He is one of our very best writers and his newest, Sunset Park, like many of his books, reflects back to us a great deal about how we live today. It is “up-to-the-moment” current, the protagonist, Miles Heller, being employed by a South Florida realty company (for part of the novel) as a “trash-out”…See More
Federico Moramarco posted a discussionInviting people to read reviews
Several of my friends complained to me about having to supply lots of personal profile information just to read my reviews on this site. Is there any way to invite friends to read reviews without asking them to join the site and give a lot of personal information? Do all people who read our reviews have to be registered bloggers? This seems a little problematic to me. I'm thinking of moving the blog elsewhere. Anyone have thoughts on this matter?
Federico Moramarco posted a blog postNicholson Baker's The Anthologist
If you are a poetry lover, you will adore this book. If you are not, I suspect you will read it with a great deal of puzzlement trying to figure out what in the world Nicholson Baker is up to. I’ve been a fan of Baker’s writing since his early book, Vox, which I still think is one of the sexiest novels I’ve ever read. And I’ve also devoted a lot of my life to poetry—writing it, teaching it, writing about it, and even anthologizing it—so I naturally have a real connection to this book and loved…See More
Federico Moramarco posted a blog postA Nostalgic (but Realistic) Look at Growing up in Brooklyn
Mention the word "candy store" today and people think of a Godiva location in their local mall. But to New Yorkers raised in the 40's and 50s (as I was) it evokes an altogether different image. Candy stores were neighborhood gathering places and each had its own "lore" associated with it. All of them certainly sold a lot more than just candy.In my neighborhood, in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn there were three major candy stores within a block of my house.The "primary" store, on the corner…See More
Federico Moramarco posted a blog postA Bright Book of Life
It was widely reported that President Obama received an advance copy of Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom, and that when asked what he thought of it he said he found it "entertaining." I have a feeling Franzen may have cringed when he heard that description of his book, because few people would call Don DeLillo's novels or Thomas Pynchon's books or even Philip Roth's work "entertaining." Most would say that those writers write serious, important, major American novels and that they are…See More
Federico Moramarco posted a blog postClassic European View of the U.S: Peter Carey's Parrot & Oliver in America
Writers of historical fiction have things “both” ways: on the one hand they want to give us a convincing, realistic portrait of actual historical figures and a time and place in the past, and on the other they’re not bound to the facts as historians are. They can let their imaginations roam freely among the nooks and crannies of what actually happened and give us a free-form, entertaining evocation of whatever it is they’re writing about. History is to historical fiction as classical music is…See More
Federico Moramarco posted a blog postThe Goon Squad is Irresistable
Jennifer Egan's "A Visit from the Goon Squad is the best work of fiction I've read in a very long while." It's a real tour de force--interlinking stories, mostly about a group of people in the music industry. The stories touch down at different times in their lives, purposely out of chronological order so we often see what happened to them before we see why they ended up the way they did.Egan introduces us to a very memorable bevy of characters, especially Sasha, a kleptomaniac and Bennie, a…See More
Federico Moramarco posted a blog postMass Hysteria and the Truth
Meredith Maran has written an important book primarily dealing with the mass hysteria that occurred in this country between the mid 1980's when the McMartin pre-school trial dominated America's attention and 1993, when Lawrence Wright published his startling and nationally therapeutic essay, "Remembering Satan" in The New Yorker, (later published as a book of the same title:…See More
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- Where I'm Calling From by Raymond Carver
- About Me:
- I'm an avid reader and a Prof. Emertitus at San Diego State University where I taught literature and creative writing for many years. I'm also the Artistic Director of a small San Diego Theater company called Laterthanever Productions
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- http://www.laterthanever.org
Federico Moramarco's Blog
Review of Antonia Fraser, Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter
Hemingway wrote somewhere that when two people are deeply in love, it is Inevitable that their story will end in tragedy, since one will quite likely out-live the other. I’ve been thinking about this recently because in the last few years I’ve read a handful of books by widows who were in deeply reciprocated love relationships and who write about those relationships in retrospect with great affection and a deep sense of loss. These books include Joan Didion’s The Year of Living… Continue
Posted on November 20, 2010 at 3:15pm
Paul Auster's Newest
Reading a Paul Auster novel is something like listening to a well-orchestrated , multi-layered musical composition where certain melodies and motifs recur with substantial elaboration and variation. He is one of our very best writers and his newest, Sunset Park, like many of his books, reflects back to us a great deal about how we live today. It is “up-to-the-moment” current, the protagonist, Miles Heller, being employed by a South…
ContinuePosted on October 13, 2010 at 3:00pm
Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist
If you are a poetry lover, you will adore this book. If you are not, I suspect you will read it with a great deal of puzzlement trying to figure out what in the world Nicholson Baker is up to. I’ve
been a fan of Baker’s writing since his early book, Vox, which I still think is one of the sexiest novels I’ve ever read. And I’ve also devoted a lot of my life to poetry—writing it,…
Posted on September 30, 2010 at 12:37pm
A Nostalgic (but Realistic) Look at Growing up in Brooklyn
Mention the word "candy store" today and people think of a Godiva location in their local mall. But to New Yorkers raised in the 40's and 50s (as I was) it evokes an altogether different…
ContinuePosted on September 13, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment
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