I hate being sick. I felt so much better on Wednesday and then yesterday, I had to go home sick again. I’m feeling better today luckily, but I don’t have much for you, dear readers.
- Robert Birnbaum has posted several of his most recent interviews. Here he talks with Heidi Julavits about her new novel The Uses of Enchantment. He conducted an email interview with Daniel Mendelsohn, author of the wonderful Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million for Mendelsohn’s new website Jewcy.
- Five Chapters has a story by Anthony Swofford, whose Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicles of the Gulf War and Other Battles vividly portrayed life in the army and his struggle during the war with the nature of killing.
- Anne Roiphe tries to balance the yearnings of her older and younger selves in her essay Balancing Act.
- On Nextbook, David Rakoff, of Don’t Get Too Comfortable, watches 28 Woody Allen movies in 21 days and posts about it.
Bookdwarf 
Sorry you’re sick, bookdwarf, I, too, have been sick and hating it. But now I’m back to myself thank goodness. I look in on your blog periodically and enjoy your posts.
Get well soon and if you have a chance take a look at my books and reading blog, feel free. booksreadingideas.blogspot.com
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Vollmann reviews the new Swofford novel in tomorrow’s NYTBR:
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My husband has been sick for a week, I think he is now permanently attached to the couch! Lots of nasty bugs this winter that take a long time to go away, feel better Bookddwarf:-)
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I think Roiphe has done some ferocious soul searching. She once described writing as a form of taking revenge. I saw her at a great lecture once saying that a greater writer is slowly lifting her skirts, waiting to show the triumph and the shame, and the end of the story but slowly…. It’s great that at her age she can look back and reflect on it all.
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