I just got the office copy of the next NYTBR and what’s on the cover? James Wood reveiwing Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. There have been many of reviews of this book, but I can’t wait to read this one. I am waiting to read the new Robinson until after I read Housekeeping, which I just purchased (got sick of waiting for a used copy to show up). Of course there is not link yet to the review, but something tells me others will be commenting on it.
Oh, and there is a response from Kitty Kelley to Jonathan Bush’s Letter to the Editor. She is clear and thoughtful. Rather than address the attack on her work, she responds that Bush cites no evidence that disproves her claims. “He smears the messenger to smudge the message.” And, she says, her book was not all negative. She wrote about Prescott Bush grew in office, standing up to Joe McCarthy and championing civil rights, unlike our current president, who joined a ‘whites only’ club in Texas (I didn’t know this) and refuses to address the N.A.A.C.P. Very interesting stuff.