Blogs
February 2nd, 2010
on Eight White Nights, a novel by André Aciman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
A nameless man tells this story: I like to walk through my city. Its places speak to me. Once I met an attractive woman and obsessively wanted her. But I’m timid. She appreciated my friendship but longed for another. She apologized for the necessity of having to hurt me. Although agitated, I was devoted to my own perplexed feelings and have no regrets.
January 26th, 2010
on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot (Crown Publishing)
Parts of the story of Henrietta Lacks have been told before – in a 1976 Rolling Stone feature, a 1986 university press title, a 1996 BBC program, in numerous newspaper and magazine articles through the years, and at symposia and conferences.
