A scattershot guide to literary South Florida includes the depressing fact that Zora Neale Hurston worked as a maid on Miami Beach late in life. See also.
“As critics go, Anderson is probing and even-tempered, not exactly a hanging judge. But something about [James] Patterson’s novels makes the veins stand out in his neck.”
Dorothy Parker is out of ribbon again. (Via.) Also, Dogmatika digs up more Tim Gauld comics — on Edward Gorey, Emily Dickinson, and many other writers.