If Thurber can talk as well as he writes he must be one of the greatest and least boring talkers.
Ernest Hemingway
Issyvoo is for book lovers.
We’re collecting interesting thoughts from clever people about good books (and one another). For example: what John Barth said about Anne Tyler.
“Alcoholism”
Short Cuts
A Farewell to Arms
The Old Devils
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
“Parental Resentment”
The Blackwater Lightship
Freedom
Frankenstein
The Corrections
“Dictators, Despots, Tyrants”
Autumn of the Patriarch
Creation
The Sea, The Sea
The Dead Father
Authors we’re reading
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Kingsley Amis
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Chinua Achebe
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Gabriel García Márquez
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J. P. Donleavy
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Arto Paasilinna
Books we’re reading
Coming into the Country
Uncommon Carriers
Bound for Glory
Down the Rabbit Hole
The Emperor
Night Soul and Other Stories
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Recent opinions
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Theo Tait
on
The Stranger’s Child
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Theo Tait
on
Alan Hollinghurst
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Emma Brockes
on
The Stranger’s Child
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James Wood
on
The Stranger’s Child
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James Wood
on
Henry James
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Jaya Aninda Chatterjee
on
The Stranger’s Child
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David Foster Wallace
on
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
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David Foster Wallace
on
David Foster Wallace
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Whitney Balliett
on
Loon Lake