Good news! MaddAddam, the final book in the Oryx and Crake/Year of the Flood trilogy, will probably come out some time next year.
I'm a photographer. I live in Los Angeles. This is a blog about art and grad school and stuff.
My website is jannaireland.com
*Please feel free to email me at janna at jannaireland.com*
Search this blog Ask me something
My website is jannaireland.com
*Please feel free to email me at janna at jannaireland.com*
Search this blog Ask me something
May 1, 2012
Here is an adorable interview with Margaret Atwood.
January 15, 2012
Halle Kiefer: I just finished The Marriage Plot
I’m glad other people are talking about not liking The Marriage Plot—I was afraid to admit my true feelings. I didn’t hate it, but it was such a disappointment that I got kind of bummed out.
I re-read The Virgin Suicides last week to see if I’d like it better the second time around. No dice. It was just as dull and pervy as it was when I was a teenager. Oh well. We’ll always have Middlesex.
Word.
Except that part at the end where I was sobbing anyway. But, you know, I’m me.
Guys, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? I just wanted to run my hand under cold water until it got chilly and slightly damp, and then slap the shit out of every single character in this book in order of appearance. I still want that. Can we just forget this book ever happened? My least favorite parts of The…
June 3, 2011
The Naipaul test: Can you tell an author's sex?
My score was 6/10. I am bothered by the fact that I have read five of the books used and didn’t recognize a single one from the passages I read.
May 19, 2011
May 10, 2011
May 6, 2011
212 Slaves, Huck Finn with only the offensive words
April 27, 2011
Literary Classics Summarized as Trashy Romance Novels
“Tereza is an ambitious photo journalist who’s as sexy as she is talented. But after the Czech beauty takes a dangerous assignment, the Russians mark her as a dissident and nowhere is safe. To the rescue is Tomas, a distinguished surgeon who is very skilled with his hands…”
April 27, 2011
April 25, 2011
Did punk rock icon Patti Smith sell out for Disney?
Photo: Disney Parks ad, photographed by Annie Liebovitz. Credit: Disney Parks
I ain’t mad at ya, Patti, but can we talk about why that nonsensical Johnny Depp blurb about treasure chests (pirates on the brain, huh, dude?) is on the back cover of the paperback edition of Just Kids, while the blurb by Joan Didion, THE MISTRESS HERSELF, is relegated to the inside flap?
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
April 8, 2011
"It is only after a certain age, twenty-five or so, when the distance between the child you were and the adult you have become has grown great enough to breed wistfulness, that lovers feel the need to bring one another home. Or perhaps it is only a dare. We have by that time become aware of and even resigned to what part of our parents we will never shake—the receding hairline, the petulance, the inability to say and sincerely mean, ‘It’s only money,’—and maybe we bring home this stranger who has claimed love and fidelity simply as a test: Love me, love my parents; love what I come from and what I will, with no more choice or volition, become."
— Alice McDermott (from That Night)
RSS feed: http://itsjanna.tumblr.com/rss
1 of 10
Next page
