Oh, if it were really this simple
"Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't."
---Julian Barnes, author
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August 27, 2007
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About Laura
- Laura Axelrod is a writer and book reviewer. Her plays have been performed in California, New York and Europe.
Her book reviews appear regularly in the Birmingham News and on the Newhouse News Service wire. Her essay on 9/11 was quoted during a lecture at London’s Bartlett School of Architecture in 2004. Other instructional articles have been used by colleges, high schools and writing groups throughout the country. She was recently quoted by Vanity Fair’s James Wolcott on the death of Norman Mailer.
When she was 22 years old, she graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Dramatic Writing. She also received her BFA in Dramatic Writing, and was awarded the John L. Golden Award for Playwright with Most Potential, and the Rod Marriott Senior Playwriting Award that same year.
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- Administrative Note
- Alabama
- Almanac
- Art
- Auto Bio
- Best of Gasp
- Book Marginalia
- Books
- Books - the 40s
- Books - the 50s
- Books - the 60s
- Books - the 70s
- But that's just my opinion
- Considerations
- Events and People - the 30s
- Events and People - the 40s
- Events and People - the 50s
- Events and People - the 60s
- Events and People - the 70s
- Ideas Floated
- Links
- Money and the Arts
- Music - the 20s
- Our Old House
- Poetry
- Project 1968
- Published
- Pulp Fiction
- Sounds
- Talking to Myself
- The Real Deal - Real Estate Pros
- Writing
What's funny is that Barnes' work is full wonderful contradictions.
I'm glad his quips follow suit.
I love Julian Barnes.
Posted by:malachy walsh | August 28, 2007 at 12:37 AM