Roald Dahl, author & seducer-spy
Children’s author Roald Dahl seduced a string of women in service of Her Majesty’s Gov’t. (Via.)
Children’s author Roald Dahl seduced a string of women in service of Her Majesty’s Gov’t. (Via.)
Michelle Green visits author MFK Fisher’s Last Home, where the warning sign used to read “Trespassers will be violated.” (Via.)
Junot Díaz’s Drown is one of the works an Oberlin professor says should replace The Catcher in the Rye on high school syllabi.
Judith Viorst, author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, wrote a 1968 book of poetry for adults, It’s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty.
Nabokov’s unfinished The Original of Laura comprises 138 index cards. Last weekend, Die Zeit thrilled fans by running scans of four.