around the internet on a tuesday: édition américaine

A special focus on my country of origin in honor of election day!

New York Magazine profiles the kickass Rachel Maddow, who can analyze foreign policy and define Dada with equal élan. A girl after my own heart.

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After being snubbed by Gallimard's Anne-Solange Noble at the Frankfurt Book Fair, American publishers are contrite about the bad manners they displayed when Le Clézio won the Nobel Prize (they went "who??", acted like no one else had ever heard of him either, and tried to buy his latest book while ignoring his backlist).  According to Publisher's Weekly, Simon and Schuster has finalized a deal to bring Le Clézio's first book, The Interrogation (Le Procès-verbal, 1963), back into print.

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The New York Review of Books has an American-heavy edition this week: David Bromwich on the evil known as Dick Cheney, Mark Danner on Obama and the strange significance of sweet potato pie, and an excerpt from Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy's son Reuel's book about his parents.

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Slate pants over Emily Dickinson's secret lover.

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The Independent pays homage to Studs Terkel.

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And in the New Yorker, Woody Allen goes to the health food store.

Comments

[The Daily Connoisseur]

I am a HUGE Rachel Maddow fan- love her show on MSNBC...

[Elisabeth]

I am a huge Rachel Maddow fan as well, and wrote a bit about her on my blog this past week.

I was also a huge Studs Terkel fan, and was saddened by his passing.

[Shamanator]

I too love Rachel Maddow. And I would be happy to talk about Elizabeth Bowen anytime!