It used to be that one could only judge whether a life was happy after the person living it died. This has changed. (via AL Daily)
You guys! The wall totally moved! (Here’s why–via Encephalon #20)
“The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein is not out in the US till next month, but already the chattering classes are chattering about it.”
On being FSG.
Shirley Jackson: not just “The Lottery.” (via Bookslut)
“Corblimey, ’e was good, Auden was! Prince of a writer. Don’ fink ’e ever drove a cab, but ’e mighta done, ’e mighta done.”