March 11, 2013
The Economics of Literary Fame
This may be the nature of any widely sought desireable thing in limited supply, but in America, literary fame behaves like money. The most obvious similarity is that, like […]
August 19, 2012
Interrogations of the blank page: on Bern Porter (part i)
The question “Is it art?” has, beyond its usual employment by philistines, a more serious philosophical consideration behind it. Usually this question is posed in the context of an apparently […]
September 13, 2011
Short Takes: Glossophobia
Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, to Raymond Chandler in 1958: “I don’t know if you do, but I find it extremely difficult to write about villains. Villains are […]