Tag: Pulitzer

  • The no-spin zone: A review of Jonathan Dee’s A Thousand Pardons

    The no-spin zone: A review of Jonathan Dee’s A Thousand Pardons

    Reviewed in this essay: A Thousand Pardons, by Jonathan Dee. Random House, 2013. Lance Armstrong could have used a hand from Helen Armstead, the inexperienced public relations guru at the heart of Jonathan Dee’s novel A Thousand Pardons. Whereas Armstrong’s stone-faced mea culpa was undermined by years of deceit, Helen would have had him prostrate…

  • Bookishness: Week of July 16, 2012

    Bookishness: Week of July 16, 2012

    Delightful A book fountain in Budapest. Poems like lace Actually, lace poems. 3608 keys Speaking as a former piano student and also as someone who has moved houses four times in the past five years, I can tell you that keyboards, even those with 88 weighted keys, are not pianos. For all those who, like…