Archive for December, 2006

Knopf editor Gary Fisketjon sequesters himself on a farm outside Nashville — great town — so as to get actual editing done.

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Kate Bolick reports from Ellen Willis’ memorial service. (Via.)

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“Will Self is a nut,” says my buddy Reeves (of the Vonnegut dream). “And I love him.”

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Your average fruitcake was more palatable in Emily Dickinson’s day. (Found thanks to the Great Fruitcake Debate at Making Light.)

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Graham Greene on film and the short story

Mark recently alerted me to the existence of The Graham Greene Film Reader, a giant volume I’m now reading intermittently. I confess I turned first to the interviews section, rather than to Greene’s actual criticism. Here’s his answer to a question, posed at a “Guardian Film Lecture,” about the cinematic potential of the short story. I think one thing is . . .

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