Sarvas

He's been more prolific (over a much longer time) as Banville, whose best-known books are The Sea, which beat out one of the best shortlists in memory (Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, etc.) to win the Booker and become his first book to sell more than a few thousand copies, and The Book of Evidence, which many have called his masterpiece and which I've been told by The Greatest Banville Fan of Them All, The Elegant Variation's Mark Sarvas, is the place to begin.

An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

(For past year kerfluffle example see commentary on Mark Sarvas 'judging; though he's been vindicated in this tourney.)

Having It Both Ways Roger Sutton 2009

Mark Sarvas does a public service by offering us a reading list compiled by James Wood in 1994 for The Guardian, in which Wood sought to "avoid the ‘representative’, ‘important’ or ‘influential’ and chosen, instead, books which I like, which seemed to me deep and beautiful, which aerate the soul and abrase the conscience …"

2009 February | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

Mark Sarvas does a public service by offering us a reading list compiled by James Wood in 1994 for The Guardian, in which Wood sought to "avoid the ‘representative’, ‘important’ or ‘influential’ and chosen, instead, books which I like, which seemed to me deep and beautiful, which aerate the soul and abrase the conscience …"

2009 February 28 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

I'm very happy to say that Mark Sarvas (TEV) has agreed to join me in reviewing Lily Tuck's National Book Award-winning novel, The News from Paraguay.

Historical Fiction 2010

Mark Sarvas does a public service by offering us a reading list compiled by James Wood in 1994 for The Guardian, in which Wood sought to "avoid the ‘representative’, ‘important’ or ‘influential’ and chosen, instead, books which I like, which seemed to me deep and beautiful, which aerate the soul and abrase the conscience …"

Sarvas gives us James Wood’s favourite Books List 2009

Mark Sarvas tried to indicate that truly serious readers of book reviews were more likely to find them too brief and thin on substance rather than otherwise, but this seemed to go right by them.

Book Reviewing 2010

Several years ago Mark Sarvas compiled a list of books New Yorker critic James Wood ‘has written about approvingly at one time or another.’

2008 December | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2008

Mark Sarvas explains why he put Netherland on a standing list of recommended books on his blog, the Elegant Variation: “The way book coverage works these days, everyone talks about the same book for about two or three weeks, and then they move on and the book is more or less forgotten” marksarvas. blogs.com/.

2008 September 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2008

The blonde has pounced on my copy of Mark Sarvas 'novel, Harry, Revised, and says she won't give it back until she's done reading it.

Lance Mannion: 2008