NYRB’s third installment of Mailer’s letters
“He’s read a million books and remembered them, but he is not an original thinker.” — Mailer, on Saul Bellow
“He’s read a million books and remembered them, but he is not an original thinker.” — Mailer, on Saul Bellow
“I like to think that after firing this off, Dickens burst into tears, then got on the computer and played Web Sudoku for an hour.”
Salman Rushdie pans this year’s Oscar winners, Slumdog Millionaire especially.
Susan Orlean has abandoned Microsoft Word for Google Docs. (Wish I could get my novel drafts to fit.)