Links for EastSider discussions
- Discussions
- Discussion questions courtesy of LitLovers.com
- Book Riot discussion
- Slate Audio Book Club discussion
- Book group's review
- You may need to join up to hear this. Will check him out soon.
- Reviews
- At The Millions
- Greg Zimmerman loves it
- Did you have dinner with Lauren Groff last year?
- NY Daily News review
- Janet Maslin at The Times put it on her top 10 list
- Here's a printable PDF filled with reviews & info from a library reading group
- Arcadia showed up often on this list
- Interviews
- Links to interviews, podcasts & other writings
- Interview in Interview Magazine
- Good interview*
- Good interview at The Millions
- Author
- Groff writing seminar transcript
- Author's bio on her website.
- She's a-Twitter
- Societies
- Arcadia (Utopia) - Wiki
- Commonly thought of as being in line with Utopian ideals, Arcadia differs from that tradition in that it is more often specifically regarded as unattainable.
- Utopia (wiki)
- Intentional community (wiki)
- List of worldwide Intentional Communities
- Utopian and dystopian fiction (Wiki)
- Dystopia (Wiki)
- Researching Utopias
- The Farm Community in TN
- The Farm (Wiki)
- Pictures of communes
- How it was in 1970s U.K.
- Oneida Community / Oneida Collection @ Syracuse U.
- Stay in Mansion House
2 comments:
I couldn't really finish it. The Slate podcast is wonderfully illuminating but I can't help compare this book with Goon Squad. I can't figure why I loved Egan's writing and her plots, which are certainly no less complicated than Arcadia. Egan's plots doesn't seem as cumbersome as Groff's. Groff's emphasis on loss and decline should be saved for another whole book. Does she just try to put too much stuff into this book. Even the Slate reviewer hints at this. I just didn't care about the Arcadia people and what might happen to them in order to finish the book.
I didn't enjoy Arcadia at all. . .laborious to read
so I quit. . .
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