Cavalcade of Genius: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colm Tóibín, Annie Proulx

You can have your blizzard nights stranded with a college swim team; there can be no greater thrill than this storm of literary brilliance. Just as I finished In Tearing Haste, the letters of travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor and Debo Mitford, yesterday was the on-sale of Colm Tóibín's new collection of (gay-inclusive) stories The Empty Family [[Kindle]] and Annie Proulx's first nonfiction, Bird Cloud [[Kindle]], a memoir of her buying 640 acres in Wyoming and trying to build the perfect house. I'll review each separately.

Comments

[Chris]

I'm really curious on your take on the Colm Toibin book. I tried a couple of his books a long time ago and found them "difficult" or maybe I was being too lazy a reader. I thought the short stories might be a good way to get back into Toibin's work.

I loved Annie Proulx's Shipping News. I remember being astounded by it when I was in college, so I'm looking forward to hearing more about her non-fiction too.