I think it was P.G. Wodehouse who observed that the English strike Americans as funny when they are just being English. Similarly, philosophers strike the laity as funny when they are just being philosophers, and that makes it hard to be as funny about them as they are when they’re left to their own devices.
Armavirumque demonstrates their hipness by referencing Fugazi. Oh boy.
VQR has posted part of “Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (via Bookslut)
New Paul Auster very, very soon.
Thomas Hardy, his wife, and his poetry.
How to interview a gay writer (via Maud Newton).