Posts tagged “fiction”
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Literary License on Buzz Aldrin: “a joy to experience”
August 25, 2011
“Buzz Aldrin is filled with an emotional exuberance that’s rare and a joy to experience. Deborah Dawkin’s translation preserves that exuberance along with the brisk pace of Mattias’s narration. Over the course of almost 500 pages, I became thoroughly immersed in Mattias’s world, and even though I finished reading [the book] more than a week ago, I still wonder how he’s doing.”
Tags: book review, buzz aldrin, fiction, johan harstad, literary license
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Reader review of Tea of Ulaanbaatar
August 9, 2011
“It is as if the narrator of Tea of Ulaanbaatar has landed in a maze of trench warfare. And where the narrator lands, so too does the reader. It’s an astonishing effect…” - SheWoreRedShoes reader review at LibraryThing
Tags: book review, christopher howard, fiction, librarything, politics, tea of ulaanbaatar
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Chris Howard blogs on Tea of Ulaanbaatar at Kindle Daily Post
June 28, 2011
Mongolia – the setting for my novel, Tea of Ulaanbaatar – traveled the path of the Society as War Machine, and emerged the worse for the experience. What Mongolia offers is a dire lesson for those who would travel in her empire-building footsteps, and a glimpse of America’s future. . . . The American Peace Corps volunteers of Tea of Ulaanbaatar, foremost the protagonist Warren, deal with this parallel in a variety of bad ways. The Gulf War lies behind them, and America’s contemporary wars loom ahead. They ultimately turn to the blood-red, hallucinogenic Mongol tea, Tsus, as a means of escape. The tea, more powerful than anything the West has ever seen, grants its long-term users the same visions of a warlike apocalypse, as if to say: To be consumed. To wither and deaden. This is what comes from empire-building. What are you going to do about it?
At least the Mongols can say they didn’t have the benefit of history in their policy-making.—Christopher R. Howard, at Kindle Daily Post
Tags: articles, christopher r howard, fiction, genghis khan, kindle daily post, mongolia, tea of ulaanbaatar
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Love Like Hate reviewed in Rain Taxi
June 28, 2011
“Linh Dinh’s Love Like Hate is listed by the Library of Congress under the subject headings Vietnamese-Americans, Vietnam, and Losers. These terms offer an insightful micro-synopsis of Linh Dinh’s novel, the first by the Vietnamese-American writer known for his paranoiac stories and poems. In Love Like Hate, Dinh presents us with a brutal, unsentimental portrait of modern Vietnam, with all its disillusionment and degradation.” — Rain Taxi
Tags: book review, fiction, linh dinh, love like hate, rain taxi, vietnam
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Johan Harstad Visits Dragonfly Bookstore in Decorah, IA
June 16, 2011
June 16, 2011, 5:30 PM, Johan Harstad author of Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? will be at Dragonfly Bookstore for a reading and signing following the release of his book that tells the story of a man on a personal journey as remote and dangerous at the trip to the moon itself. Location: 112 W. Water Street Decorah, IA 52101. For more information contact 563.382.4275 or e-mail info@dragonflybooks.com
Tags: Buzz aldrin what happened to you in all the confusion?, decorah, dragonfly books, fiction, iowa, johan harstad, reading, signing
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Prairie Lights and U Iowa Cosponsor Harstad Reading
June 15, 2011
June 15, 2011, time TBA, Prairie Lights Bookstore and the University of Iowa Writing Program will co-sponsor a reading from Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion? by Johan Harstad. Harstad’s latest work follows Mattias, a man on a journey as remote and dangerous as the trip to the moon itself. Location: 15 S Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA 52240-3950. For additional information, please visit www.prairielights.com.
Tags: Buzz aldrin what happened to you in all the confusion?, fiction, johan harstad, prairie lights, reading, university of iowa writing program
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Unstuck in Time
June 14, 2011
Sumner gives us a poignant portrait of Vonnegut and his resistance to celebrating the traditional values associated with the American Dream: grandiose ambition, unbridled material success, rugged individualism, and “winners” over “losers.”
Tags: biography, fiction, gregory sumner, kurt vonnegut, unstuck in time
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Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?
June 14, 2011
“There’s so much music, exuberance, bewilderment and sweet melancholy in Johan Harstad’s Buzz Aldrin. It’s rock ‘n’ roll, then heartbreaking, then rock ‘n’ roll again. I devoured every line.”–Paolo Giordano, author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Tags: buzz aldrin, Buzz aldrin what happened to you in all the confusion?, fiction, johan harstad
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Johan Harstad at Magers and Quinn Bookstore in Minneapolis
June 14, 2011
June 14, 2011, 7:30 PM, Author of Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, Johan Harstad, will be at Magers and Quinn bookstore in Minneapolis for a reading from his latest work about a man on a journey as remote and dangerous as the trip to the moon itself. Location: 3038 Hennepin Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55408. For additional information go to www.magersandquinn.com
Tags: buzz aldrin, faroe islands, fiction, johan harstad, magers and quinn, minneapolis, reading, what happened to you in all the confusion
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Johan Harstad and Garth Risk Hallberg at Housing Works
June 6, 2011
Norway meets New York in this double launch event for Johan Harstad’s BUZZ ALDRIN, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU IN ALL THE CONFUSION? (Seven Stories Press) and the paperback release of Garth Risk Hallberg’s A FIELD GUIDE TO THE NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY (Mark Batty Publisher), with music by Brooklyn duo SWEATER.
More info and directions here on the Housing Works Bookstore events list.Tags: a field guide to the north american family, Buzz aldrin what happened to you in all the confusion?, fiction, garth risk hallberg, johan harstad, mark batty, q&a, readings
“fiction” Posts
- Aug 25, Literary License on Buzz Aldrin: “a joy to experience”
- Aug 9, Reader review of Tea of Ulaanbaatar
- Jun 28, Chris Howard blogs on Tea of Ulaanbaatar at Kindle Daily Post
- Jun 28, Love Like Hate reviewed in Rain Taxi
- Jun 16, Johan Harstad Visits Dragonfly Bookstore in Decorah, IA
- Jun 15, Prairie Lights and U Iowa Cosponsor Harstad Reading
- Jun 14, Unstuck in Time
- Jun 14, Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?
- Jun 14, Johan Harstad at Magers and Quinn Bookstore in Minneapolis
- Jun 6, Johan Harstad and Garth Risk Hallberg at Housing Works
