http://www.otherpress.com Other Press by General Projects Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:03:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-221 Other Press » Blog Archive » The Perks of Being a Novelist Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:03:07 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-221 [...] Jan-Phillip Sendker is the author of the novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. [...] [...] Jan-Phillip Sendker is the author of the novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-213 Other Press » Blog Archive » ‘Lamb’ wins Flaherty-Dunnan Prize Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:47:24 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-213 [...] in New York, Bonnie Nadzam was awarded the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize for her debut novel Lamb. The Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize is awarded to the best debut novel of the year. The author of [...] [...] in New York, Bonnie Nadzam was awarded the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize for her debut novel Lamb. The Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize is awarded to the best debut novel of the year. The author of [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-212 Other Press » Blog Archive » ‘Lamb’ shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Mon, 05 Dec 2011 19:21:39 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-212 [...] Nadzam’s debut novel Lamb has been shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The winner will be announced at a [...] [...] Nadzam’s debut novel Lamb has been shortlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. The winner will be announced at a [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-200 Other Press » Blog Archive » From Art Prophets to Art Profiteers Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:03:24 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-200 [...] new book, The Art Prophets, is the story of eleven visionary art dealers and tastemakers whose ideas and discoveries helped [...] [...] new book, The Art Prophets, is the story of eleven visionary art dealers and tastemakers whose ideas and discoveries helped [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-199 Other Press » Blog Archive » At Balzac’s Table Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:02:26 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-199 [...] For months at a time, Balzac worked sixteen hours a day. He would go to bed at seven, get up at midnight, and work till early afternoon without a break.  During these periods, he hardly ate: a few pears perhaps (he had a passion for pears), a chicken wing, and of course very black coffee in huge quantities, which allowed “his ideas to get marching like the battalions of Napoleon’s army before a battle.” He was convinced—and he repeated this over and over again—that abstemiousness was essential for the creative artist. In his rather bizarre medical thinking, he considered that the effort of digestion wore out the brain. (I should add that he also thought it essential not to go too long without a woman lest the same brain go soft.) But let’s go back to food. Balzac the man did not eat, but Balzac the author was obsessed with food—a first in French literature. I wondered why the topic never came up before Balzac, and to find out the reason I started reading and rereading his novels and ended up with a book of my own. [...] [...] For months at a time, Balzac worked sixteen hours a day. He would go to bed at seven, get up at midnight, and work till early afternoon without a break.  During these periods, he hardly ate: a few pears perhaps (he had a passion for pears), a chicken wing, and of course very black coffee in huge quantities, which allowed “his ideas to get marching like the battalions of Napoleon’s army before a battle.” He was convinced—and he repeated this over and over again—that abstemiousness was essential for the creative artist. In his rather bizarre medical thinking, he considered that the effort of digestion wore out the brain. (I should add that he also thought it essential not to go too long without a woman lest the same brain go soft.) But let’s go back to food. Balzac the man did not eat, but Balzac the author was obsessed with food—a first in French literature. I wondered why the topic never came up before Balzac, and to find out the reason I started reading and rereading his novels and ended up with a book of my own. [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-197 Other Press » Blog Archive » Other Press Night at Greenlight Bookstore Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:46:11 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-197 [...] Douglas, author of The Vices, teaches at Amherst College. He is the author of The Catastrophist, The Memory of Judgment, [...] [...] Douglas, author of The Vices, teaches at Amherst College. He is the author of The Catastrophist, The Memory of Judgment, [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-190 Other Press » Blog Archive » Call and Response Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:33:35 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-190 [...] through writing Lamb, my heart misgave me. I knew, could feel as a sort of misaligned bone in my rib cage, that there [...] [...] through writing Lamb, my heart misgave me. I knew, could feel as a sort of misaligned bone in my rib cage, that there [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-178 Other Press » Blog Archive » A Sense of the “Utopian” Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:40:35 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-178 [...] by Monika Fagerholm, author of The Glitter Scene [...] [...] by Monika Fagerholm, author of The Glitter Scene [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-176 Other Press » Blog Archive » Writing Who You Know Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:39:26 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-176 [...] protagonist of The Vices, my new novel, is a philosopher from New York and a noted authority on Wittgenstein. My closest [...] [...] protagonist of The Vices, my new novel, is a philosopher from New York and a noted authority on Wittgenstein. My closest [...]

]]> http://www.otherpress.com/books/book/comment-page-2#comment-171 Other Press » Blog Archive » Sex, Love, and Death: The Memoirs of Paul Zweig Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:20:01 +0000 http://www.otherpress.com/?page_id=60#comment-171 [...] [...] [...] [...]

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