Posted in C18th, book reviews, books, tagged Isobel Grundy, John Banville, Kepler, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently read John Banville’s Kepler. A beautiful novel, densely packed though short. It came out in 1999 and I can’t imagine it was too widely read, despite the laudatory reviews by various heavy hitters, because of its somewhat arcane subject. But passing it up because of a lack of familiarity with or interest in Kepler [...]
Posted in C18th, sff, tagged Doris Lessing, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, New York Times, The Long Eighteenth, Verlyn Klinkenborg on December 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
just doesn’t happen very often: Verlyn Klinkenborg has written a piece for the New York Times that connects the eighteenth century with speculative fiction. See “When Doris Lessing Meets Lady Mary Wortley Montagu” (Dec. 8/07) for an interesting read about the ways in which we tend to position writers from the past, and how re-imagining [...]
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