The latest review to be added is French Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland's novel, Jean-Christophe Volume II: Morning.

The second volume of Jean-Christophe continues the same wondrous exploration of musical genius as the first. I urge anyone who is able to either download the provided pdf file, read the text through Project Gutenberg, or somehow find a physical copy.

Titles also under review include:
---Clerambault
---Jean-Christophe Volume I: Dawn

The latest review to be added is French Nobel Laureate Romain Rolland's novel, Jean-Christophe Volume I: Dawn.

Dawn is the first novel in a series of ten that begins with Jean-Christophe's birth and ends with his death. Taken singly, each novel is quite small, but as a whole the entirety adds up to a masterpiece that has few equals amongst early twentieth century literature. Highly recommended.

Titles also under review include:
---Clerambault

An essay I wrote on Alexander Kielland has been posted to the The South Wing website.

You can read it here.

The latest review to be added is American author Philip Roth's novel, Indignation

Titles also under review:

---Exit Ghost
---Goodbye, Columbus
---My Life as a Man
---Novels, 1973-1977 (Library of America)
---Zuckerman Bound

I have been fortunate enough to become the literary and fiction editor for the brand new magazine, The South Wing.

My story, Victoria's Performance, has been published as part of the launch edition.

My primary duties will be nurturing the fiction of others and writing pieces myself, and I will be engaging in a series of small essays concerning writers I consider to have been overlooked.

Please take the time to read the magazine. It's a small operation at the moment, but the ambition behind it is large. I hope you enjoy it.

As has been reported all over the internet, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio has won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008.

I have not yet read any of le Clézio's work, and sadly The Book Depository does not have a large selection of his work available to purchase. I hope to add him to my bookshelf soon, and then to review once my personal life has settled.

Other articles of interest concerning the Nobel Prize:

The Complete Review
New York Times
Guardian (UK)

(It seems that the American press has been rather flummoxed by le Clézio's win. The New York Times, for example, broke the story with a headline and a list of Nobel winners from 1960. Not exactly the most informative of stories. I suspect that large, lavish articles had been written in case Roth, Atwood, Updike, McCarthy et al had won, but an 'obscure' foreigner has put the press in a bit of a sore spot. It might just call for research. Horrors!)

(Also Note: The Hiatus remains in place until further notice. Thank you for understanding.)