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Jm Coetzee

10 Novels That Will Disturb Even The Coldest Of Hearts

flavorwire.com | Posted 05.18.2011 | Books


Jezebel-writer Anna North’s debut novel, America Pacifica, is out today. The story centers around an impoverished teenage girl who is struggling to ...

The Wisest, Most Relevant Novel About 9/11 Was Published In 1980

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 03.23.2011 | Books


Jesse Kornbluth

The South African novelist J.M. Coetzee writes with a pen that's sharp as a knife, in ink made from his own blood. Or so it seems, for each word seems carved or cut, obtained at great price, offered as a sacrifice.

Why Do Novelists Hate Being Interviewed?

Salon.com | CHRISTY LEMIRE | Posted 03.23.2011 | Books


"I Don't Want to Talk About It." That was on the card Don DeLillo handed me in Athens after I crossed seven time zones to interview him back in 1979. ...

'Penguin Ink' Debuts

ew.com | Keith Staskiewicz | Posted 03.23.2011 | Books


Penguin Books upcoming "Penguin Ink" series, in which the publisher commissioned tattoo artists and illustrators to re-imagine the covers of six moder...

Booker Shortlist 2009: Byatt, Coetzee Are Back

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 03.23.2011 | Media


LONDON — Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee are among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize. ...