Tillie Olsen dies at 94
How many more feminist writers will we lose this decade? R.I.P. Tillie Olsen.
How many more feminist writers will we lose this decade? R.I.P. Tillie Olsen.
At Japundit, Marie Mockett praises Ellis Avery’s The Teahouse Fire, casting the author as the rare Westerner who writes authentically about Japan.
The Five Books of Moses. Unfortunately, I couldn’t even remember the word “philology,” much less pronounce it, in that context. Instead, I babbled about “seed,” progeny and semen until someone silenced me by refilling my glass. Alter’s rendition of the Pentateuch is impressive enough — James Wood calls it “a monument of scholarship” — that I thought I’d excerpt . . .
In a 2001 interview, Charles Portis recalls his days in journalism, and an arm-wrestling session that resulted in a broken arm (not his).