http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/keeping-it-short/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/keeping-it-short/comment-page-1/#comment-46320 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:22:45 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=13155#comment-46320 Thanks! Sounds fun!

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/keeping-it-short/comment-page-1/#comment-46319 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:22:00 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=13155#comment-46319 Thanks very much!

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/keeping-it-short/comment-page-1/#comment-46318 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:21:39 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=13155#comment-46318 Ooh, thanks. Totally agree with your assessment of Solnit! Maybe not an easy read, but invigorating works, too. (I might need to read it again!)

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/keeping-it-short/comment-page-1/#comment-46317 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 14:21:41 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=13155#comment-46317 “Parnassus on Wheels” by Christopher Morley.
A middle-aged spinster buys a traveling bookseller’s wagon and stock and takes off for a new life. I found it charming.
(Its companion volume, “The Haunted Bookshop” is not nearly so good.)

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/keeping-it-short/comment-page-1/#comment-46309 Sat, 01 Oct 2016 19:13:46 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=13155#comment-46309 Short novel, beautiful prose, about the unordinariness of being ordinary: Alice McDermott, Someone.

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2016/09/keeping-it-short/comment-page-1/#comment-46308 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:07:48 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=13155#comment-46308 The slimmest volumes on my shelf (the ones I return to again on again) are Lorrie Moore’s Self-Help, Alida Nugent’s You Don’t Have to Like Me, and Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me. That last isn’t necessarily breezy, but it certainly is rousing.

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