Chang-Rae Lee is going to have to knock my socks off…

Emily Gordon: …to sway my gaze from Lorrie Moore, of whom I have long been an ardent fan. He’s great, don’t get me wrong. But Lorrie Moore: When, like, life makes you wonder who the heck will run the frog hospital, the birds of America sing anagrams. “I know some things,” they say. “Self-help: Read Lorrie Moore.”

23 September 2005 | uncategorized |

Live from the 57th Street McDonald’s

posted by Emily Gordon

Jonathan Franzen: “Sometimes we worry that the novel will become like poetry in a few years.”

Cressida Leyshon on Zadie Smith: “When you read her, you feel as though you’re in a warm bath drinking a shot of tequila.”

Franzen: “Hello to all the therapists in the audience!”

Zadie Smith after Franzen draped his jacket over her shoulders, like the secretly hot captain of the chess club with the secretly brainy cheerleader: “Oh, that’s very gentlemanly!”

23 September 2005 | uncategorized |