September 12, 2011
What’s Your Font?
Easy pop quiz: what font are you reading this in? I’m going to take it as an article of faith that those of us who’d frequent the blogs of literary […]
September 3, 2010
Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane
Yesterday, crossing campus at lunchtime, I found myself caught in a storm. A few minutes later, drying off at a corner table with a toasted “everything” bagel (“everything,” by the […]
June 1, 2009
Location, Location, Location
Nabokov wrote The Real Life of Sebastian Knight under unusual circumstances. In a 1941 letter to Edmund Wilson (penned long before their famous feud), he tells his new friend, “I […]