(b. 1965– )
U.S. book critic and author“She [Katie Roiphe] is an excellent quoter, a gift I once saw referred to as ‘arranging other people’s flowers.'”
more infosource: “Defending the Unruly Realm,” New York Times, November 27, 2012.
category: quotation
medium: Book review
“Few books will I not reread sooner.”
more infosource: review of Peter Manso’s book Reasonable Doubt, in “A Murder Trial to Cover, Axes to Grind,” The New York Times, July 7, 2011.
category: book review, pan, reading
medium: Book review
“One of the best neologisms to bubble up during the Internet era is ‘moasting,’ a verb that combines the words moaning and boasting. Everyone moasts, sometimes, but media creatures on Twitter have perfected the form: ‘Racing from Washington for a Charlie Rose taping. What’s happened to the quiet car on the Acela?'”
more infosource: book review of Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Houellebecq’s Public Enemies, in “Throwing Mud and Calling It Beautiful,” The New York Times, January 11, 2011.
category: boast, language, moan, neologism, Twitter
medium: book review
“This is not your auntie’s self-help book. No muffled ‘I’m OK—You’re OK’ tone here. The vibe is: I’m Superbad, bro, and I have dimples. You’re a mole person who, if you become an angel investor in my books, might someday touch the hem of my Speedo.”
more infosource: review of Timothy Ferriss’s book The 4-Hour Body, “New! Improved! Shape Up Your Life!,” The New York Times, January 6, 2011.
category: book review, self-help, vibe
medium: book review
“It’s as if someone had carved one of John Updike’s Rabbit novels onto a few thousand grains of rice.”
more infosource: review of G. B. Trudeau’s 40: A Doonesbury Retrospective, in “Panel by Panel, a Graphic Record of Our Time,” The New York Times, December 23, 2010.
category: book review, comic strip, Doonesbury
medium: book review
“A good book of letters beats an almost-good novel any day.”
more infosource: “Friends Who Didn’t Mince Words,” The New York Times, December 9, 2010.
category: book review, letter, novel
medium: book review
Dwight Garner