Pamuk and the Bloggers
by BudParr | MetaxuCafe on October 13, 2006
» Apparently Columbia University is dominating more than Upper West Side real estate market: Mr. Pamuk is on board in the departments of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures and the School of the Arts. More coverage at the Complete Review, along with Orthofer’s list of press reactions.
» Despite his great coverage, few are forgiving Mr. Orthofer for claiming Pamuk too young for the Nobel, and Prufrock Two points out that Rudyard Kipling was the youngest laureate at 42.
» Maud Newton and the h20boro lib blog have some good Pamuk links.
» BLogographos fears that in the “praising and lauding of Pamuk the political figure” the fact that he is “perhaps one of the five finest post-war prose stylists in the world” will be lost.
» Buddha Smiled has a thoughtful piece here at MetaxuCafé and his site where he says:
I read My Name is Red & Istanbul before I visited Istanbul. But Pamuk’s writing had painted a glorious picture for me, had opened my eyes to the multifarious realities that make up that uber-city, had prepared me for the schizophrenia that was to confront me at every step.
» See the comments of my Nobel announcement post (where I mentioned James Marcus’s coverage of Pamuk’s Pen speech this year) for more. Also the Words Without Borders Blog opened up to comments and has pages of them to sift through for the gems.
» karen! has a friend who met Pamuk this year - and has a picture to prove it, probably confirming what Darby says, that Pamuk “sort of look[s] like the kind of guy you’d like to go shoot the breeze with over a couple cups of really good coffee?”
» If you’re interested in an unfiltered view and potentially exposing yourself to those non-MetaxuCafé philistines, there were 156 blog posts on Pamuk within the last day, according to Sphere (a far better than Technorati search tool).
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