“There are few opportunities for so intimate and unguarded a glimpse into the private life of a great American writer. Mr. Amason told me that visitors sometimes wept on the bedroom threshold.” Armavirumque is less impressed.
Alpha Mailer has given up his chase for the Great American Novel.
Put on your red shoes and dance the blues.
“The story behind N??mirovsky’s work is as affecting as Suite Fran??aise itself. ”
Drowning in the last hours of the day, are we? (via Bookslut)
“This is all giving me a severe sense of inferiority. I thought all you had to do was write the books.”
When you lose a book… (via Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind)
“Most religions suggest that we get at least one other go at being.”
Well, it stands to reason that New Yorkers like to read about New Yorkers…
The art of the suicide note.
“I really wish the Book Review would spend more time reviewing people’s books instead of their ethnic backgrounds.”