The Discomfort Zone A Personal History Post on 03-09-2006. Here's something to ponder: how one writer's work changes after the deaths of his parents. Consider Jonathan Franzen. While his parents were still living, he published two issue-stuffed novels, about the St. Louis Police Department and environmental concerns in Boston. He wrote essays about the state of the American novel, the Chicago postal service and the writer William Gaddis. ... To see the new from its original source click here The blue badge of verbiage Post on 03-09-2006. ZADIE Smith, with typically self-deprecating charm, referred to her first novel, White Teeth, as "the literary equivalent of one hyperactive, ginger-haired, tap-dancing 10-year-old". I'm tempted to describe Marisha Pessl's debut as the literary equivalent of one hyperactive, ginger-haired, tap-dancing 10-year-old who is simultaneously spinning plates, performing cartwheels and singing 'On the Good Ship Lollipop' in her own translation into Swahili. Pessl indubitably has talent, imagination and flair. If only she had some restraint. ... To see the new from its original source click here

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