Emily Barton

Writings

A New Greek Testament

Ellinika Grammata has just come out with a Greek translation of The Testament of Yves Gundron, with a beautiful new (and, I dare say, really Hellenic-looking) cover. (I mean, look at those horses!) Please tell your Greek friends to look for it!

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Marilynne Robinson’s novel Home

My review of Marilynne Robinson’s wonderful novel Home in the Los Angeles Times, Sunday, September 7, 2008.

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Eli Miller’s Seltzer Delivery Service

Here’s my essay about one of the last seltzer delivery men in New York City. The piece originally appeared in the anthology Brooklyn Was Mine, Riverhead Books, 2008, and was republished at Nextbook (which is now Tablet magazine), January 2, 2008.

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Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book

My review of Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book is in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 30, 2007.

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The Big Schlep: My Review of Michael Chabon’s Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Here’s a link to my New York Observer review of Michael Chabon’s new novel; it originally ran May 1st, 2007.

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Review of The Pesthouse by Jim Crace

Jim Crace’s novel The Pesthouse may have been somewhat eclipsed by Cormac McCarthy’s The Road when it came out; but I think it’s a fine (and quite disturbing) book. Here’s my review, which ran in the Los Angeles Times, 29 April 2007.

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Bridge Building

Here’s an essay entitled “Bridge Building,” published in the Boston Review.

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An Essay on Ben Folds

Here’s an essay on the Ben Folds song “Bitches Ain’t Shit,” from Moistworks.com, during one of their writers’ weeks.

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