Email Author Karen Silver

2002 Stories by Karen Silver

• Bridgework

  published April 24, 2002

  The first book I acquired as an editor was an illustrated edition of Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, with a... More >>

• One Book, One State

  published March 27, 2002

  It would begin with a committee. A secret group of well-meaning literary types -- booksellers, librarians, and academics -- would get together to... More >>

• Machine Love

  published February 27, 2002

  After I quit my first university and before I enrolled in my second, I took a year off and lived at home, working and taking what I thought would... More >>

• Read and Gone

  published January 30, 2002

  Los Angeles has the L.A. Times Festival of Books, which attracted about 120,000... More >>

• Language of Love

  published January 9, 2002

  Until the Inquisition, Spain was home to a thriving community of Jews, who lived in relative peace as scholars and merchants alongside Muslims and... More >>

• Word Up

  published January 2, 2002

  As Mark Twain (see Thursday) once wrote, "The difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter... More >>