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Editorial Staff Contact: info@artsfuse.org 617-718-0328 Bill Marx Editor-in-Chief Theater, Books, Film For well over two decades, Bill Marx has written about arts and culture for print, broadcast, and online. In 2002, Marx created and edited WBUR Online Arts, a cultural zine that, along with arts reviews and commentaries, presented multimedia features, blogs, a podcast, and […]

World Books Update: Of ‘Denial’ and other matters

By Bill Marx In my other life, as editor of World Books for The World, BBC/PRI’s national radio program dedicated to international news, I write and edit book reviews as well commentaries and interviews. I also host a monthly podcast dedicated to global literature, which is available through ITunes. The most recent pieces posted on […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Ah Cheng, Beside the Sea, Culture Vulture, Denial: A Memoir of Terror, Harvey Blume, Heinrich von Kleist, Helen Epstein, Jessica Stern, Margriet de Moor, News from Home, Rien Ne Va Plus, Roberta Silman, Sefi Atta, Short F, The King of Trees, The Storm, Tommy-Wallach, World Books

Fuse Flash: Postscript on Wordfest at The Mount

By Roberta Silman Although all the statistical material about the demography of Wordfest has yet to be compiled, the word is out that this newest event at The Mount was an amazing success. About 500 people attended events at the grounds of The Mount and nearby at Seven Hills (the fundraising dinner) over the weekend […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Fuse Flash, Lenox, MA, Roberta Silman, The Mount, Wordfest

Fuse Books: Edith Wharton’s The Mount Sponsors the First Annual Berkshire Wordfest

With the establishment of Wordfest, a celebration of writing in America with talks, interviews, panels, and book signings, The Mount seems to be coming into its own in ways that make it more alive than ever before. By Roberta Silman When we first built our home in the Berkshires in the early 70s, I remember […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Books, Edith Wharton, Garrison Keillor, Roberta Silman, the Berkshires, The Mount, Wordfest

Book Review: A Rat’s Tale

Readers should not be put off by the title, for this is a splendid novel, interesting in the risks it takes, in its ambition and scope—a book that deserves to be savored and discussed. Rat by Fernanda Eberstadt, Knopf, 304 pages, $25.95 Reviewed by Roberta Silman They have always been with us, those “casual offspring,” […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Books, Fernanda Eberstadt, fiction, Rat, Roberta Silman

Book Review: ‘Making Toast’

Although the memoir has been called luminous, wise, humble, piercing, and all sorts of other laudatory adjectives, it is, nevertheless, not an easy book to read because you keep wondering how you would manage in this situation. Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt, Ecco Press, 166 pages, $21.00 Reviewed by Roberta Silman At the end of […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Making Toast, memoir, non-fiction, Roberta Silman, Roger Rosenblatt, The New Yorker

World Books Update: October 2009

By Bill Marx A number of new pieces on World Books since the last update in September, including my podcast interview with Benjamin Moser about his biography of Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) entitled “Why This World” from Oxford University Press. The Brazilian writer’s challenging stream-of-consciousness technique, lack of political bite, physical beauty and, Moser argues, her […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts, World Books Tagged: As God Commands, Benjamin Moser, Celestina, Clarice Lispector, I'm Not Scared, Italian, Margaret Sayers Peden, Mónica Szurmuk, Niccolò Ammaniti, Oxford University Press, Paula Jacques, Persona Non Grata, Roberta Silman, Spanish, Tommy-Wallach, Why This World, Yale-University-Press

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