Excerpts From State by State Sep 12, 2008
- By Mohammed Naseehu Ali, Charles Bock, Dagoberto Gilb, David Rakoff, Matt Weiland, and Heidi Julavits - Slate Magazine ... well-traveledentriesfrom: Heidi Julavits ... well-traveledentriesfrom: Heidi Julavits. (Slate)
expressed some discomfort Aug 5, 2008
In her founding essay for The Believer, Heidi Julavits, positioning herself as a kind of anti-Peck, earnestly lamented a particular kind of critical attack as "snark": the act of reviewing a writer's career and publicity rather than his or her work, "a scornful, knowing tone frequently employed to mask an actual lack of information about books." Of course critics should review books rather than personalities -- but that point seems to have gotten lost in the pages of Julavits's own magazine,... (Harper's Magazine)
Look no further for health info, coffee, magazines Mar 24, 2008
The Believer, edited by Heidi Julavits, Ed Park and Vendela Vida. McSweeny's Publishing. (Missoulian, MT)
Imagination takes over 'The Book of Other People' Jan 24, 2008
And there could be a whole novel in Heidi Julavits' Gladys Parks-Schultz, a judge with some surprising secrets. Some of these stories are clunky, a couple feel phoned in, and too many of them were first published last year in The New Yorker. (USA Today -- Life)
* [BOOK REVIEW] The best and worst of life and writing Jan 13, 2008
And Judge Gladys Parks-Schultz by Heidi Julavits devolves from a promising portrait of a difficult old woman into an overly ironic tale with a cheap, O. Henry-esque conclusion. In the end, the reader of this volume will most likely hopscotch through this collection, skipping over the less satisfying entries to focus on its few gems. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The best new journals Dec 31, 2007
Founded 2003 by Dave Eggers, his wife Vendela Vida and Heidi Julavits, and published by McSweeney's out of San Francisco. Editors Vida, Ed Park and Julavits. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Books as the picks that click Apr 9, 2007
Some are here: Charles Portis, Barbara Pym, Flann O'Brien, Penelope Fitzgerald, and, thank you Claire Messud and Heidi Julavits, here is V. S. Naipaul's " A House for Mr. Biswas," one of the greatest novels ever written. But, still, where are the other objects of my missionary zeal. (Boston Globe)
Stories of concert experiencesare music to readers' ears Jan 25, 2007
And when Heidi Julavits writes about seeing Rush in 1985, she acknowledges right off the bat that while the concert was memorable, she remembers very little about it. There are nice little nuggets hidden throughout the book, which is organized chronologically by the date of the show. (The Standard-Times, MA)
