Something I learned this Thanksgiving, and really should have known or at least researched beforehand: a 19-pound turkey for seven people is ridiculous, ridiculous overkill, especially when one of those people is a vegetarian. The past few days have been punctuated by ever-more-creative (and unappetizing) turkey concoctions, and endless naps. Today, in search of a recipe to counteract the dismal . . .
Toni Morrison talks with Sam Tanenhaus about setting A Mercy in a time when America was fluid — “before slavery and black became married.”
Downturn be damned, the Kindle is on backorder till January, and selling for more than $700 at eBay.
“Literature does many, many things, and philosophy does one thing.” Jacket Copy’s Carolyn Kellogg has unearthed an assortment of videos featuring authors who are no longer with us, but “continue to exist, in shadowy form, on YouTube.” Joy of joys, this interview with Iris Murdoch is among them. (Parts 2, 3, 4, & 5.) It’s amazing to witness her almost . . .