And who doesn’t have a busy schedule and a bad memory these days? (via fade theory)
Dahl is that kind of writer, the rare kind who pole-axes you when first you meet, when you discover the wonder of writing that is perfectly, vividly, wildly alive.
Things are looking up for the writers at the Inquirer and the Daily News.
Publishers were among the first to creep, hermit crab-like, into Bloomsbury’s domestic shells.
Those who forget the past sometimes simply want to forget it.
If writers are pickpockets, Shakespeare is our Fagin.
Like dueling banjos but without the banjos.
The math of translation (via Maud).
Actually, the novel is not without originality and tackles some serious themes, but its good points are rather swamped by Golds’ insistence on saying it with adjectives. However, my nine-year-old daughter loved it, so what do I know?