In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’ll mention The Christian Science Monitor has a review of a love anthology edited by Jeffrey Eugenides, the proceeds of which help out the Chicago 826 writing center of Dave Eggers. The title? My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead. No comment on that.
As a huge fan of Jose Saramago, the Nobel-prize-winning Portugese writer, I just have to point you all to a review of the English translation of Death at Intervals, a book that I first blogged about in February of 2007 here, when comparing his novels Blindness and Seeing. Except back then the going English title (the literal translation) was The Intermittence of Death — decidedly more awkward.
