“It’s no coincidence that Bola??o’s most heartbreaking creation–the rebellious, doomed poet at the heart of his 1998 masterwork, The Savage Detectives, which Farrar, Straus has just published in translation–is named Ulises.”
Conquering Britain with humor… until manners won the day.
Ian McEwan’s secret brother?
“The first-time novelist may experience a contradictory mixture of over- and under-exposure.”
In America, a toilet is a fixture. In Britain, apparently, it’s a whole room.
“Michael Frayn, renowned playwright and novelist, has written a long and ambitious book on the relationship between the objective world and the human mind.”
This rash of apocalyptic novels is apparently a delayed reaction?
“I left the White House that evening with the thought that Bill Clinton had missed his true vocation, which was, of course, to be an English professor. But the profession he actually chose makes it all the more appropriate to consider whether it is possible to discover in Shakespeare an “ethically adequate object” for human ambition.”
About those literary papers, the ones authors leave behind when they slough off this mortal coil….
The BBC’s take on philosopher Karl Popper.
Jane Austen too plain for one publisher…
OMG, priceless.