December 12, 2006 Nadine Gordimer delivered the first Naguib Mahfouz Memorial Lecture, “Witness: the inward testimony,” in Cairo last week. (Via.) Read more
December 12, 2006 Did Thomas Hardy’s first wife, Emma, die of syphilis contracted from the poet? (Via.) Read more
December 12, 2006 Watch Alison Bechdel talk about the making of Fun Home. (She jokes that her drawing process is “a barely-harnessed obsessive-compulsive disorder.”) Read more
December 12, 2006 “There’s nothing like picking up an early draft of your book off the street to put things in perspective.” (Try weighting it down with cat litter, Gwenda.) Read more
December 12, 2006 “Hemingway took two steps toward him and clocked him. He knocked [Plimpton] out cold.” (Via.) Read more
