Posts Tagged: Gustave Flaubert

December 5, 2011

Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 (Part 1)

Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books of 2011 (Part 1)

Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow The Love Wife by Gish Jen:  This novel takes us to the heart of the most complicated–and a complicating–American family. It broke my heart and then …

November 29, 2010

What We’re Reading: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

I discovered the writing of Lydia Davis during my freshman year at Sarah Lawrence College, when a friend loaned me a copy of her first short story collection, Break it Down, and …