Thursday, April 03, 2008
The comic book purge of the 1950s
Review of a new book by David Hajdu about the comic-book panic of the 1950s, when parents and people in charge believed comics were destroying America. Hard to believe, but artists and writers were blacklisted from the industry, similar to the Red Scare and the movie industry during the same time period. Nowadays, comic books may be the least of parents' worries about their overexposed children...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
After watching the recent film, The Namesake, this weekend, I was happy to see this article pop up in my newsreader. Jhumpa Lahiri is a beautiful writer, which is why I was so disappointed with the movie version of her second book. After reading The Interpreter of Maladies when I worked for The New York Public Library, I couldn't wait for the next book by Lahiri. Her second book (first novel), The Namesake, was an evocative moving tale of the collision of cultures -- brilliantly described by Ms. Lahiri. The movie, to put it plainly, was bad. It reinforces my opinion that the book is always better
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