What happened to all of the local blog coverage that was supposed to come out of Denver? There seemed to be very little of it. Maybe I missed it.
Here’s Nora Ephron writing about the Clintons. Nora hasn’t been blogging much of late.
Joyce Carol Oates reviews Curtis Sittenfeld‘s American Wife: Curtis Sittenfeld surely did not intend to create, in this mostly amiable, entertaining novel, anything so ambitious — or so presumptuous — as a political/cultural allegory in the 19th-century mode, yet “American Wife” might be deconstructed as a parable of America in the years of the second Bush presidency: the “American wife” is in fact the American people, or at least those millions of Americans who voted for a less-than-qualified president in two elections — the all-forgiving enabler for whom the bromide “love” excuses all. Criticized for abjuring responsibility for her husband’s destructive political policies, Alice reacts defensively: “The single most astonishing fact of political life to me has been the gullibility of the American people. Even in our cynical age, the percentage of the population who is told something and therefore believes it to be true — it’s staggering.”
This new arrival, (correlating conveniently with the arrival of new students to Montana universities), is a beautiful gathering of works inspired by the prairie, including pieces by many regional authors, as well as haunting, awe-inspiring photography.
