The voice of Borges
Harvard University Press has posted audio excerpts from lectures Borges delivered in 1967-68. (Via.) Evidently they are not new — except to me.
Harvard University Press has posted audio excerpts from lectures Borges delivered in 1967-68. (Via.) Evidently they are not new — except to me.
Colson Whitehead’s next novel “is about a teenager who subsists on TV dinners and toils at an ice-cream parlor.” (Via.)
Christian fundamentalists are reimagining U.S. history. Their version plays right into the Bush administration’s hands — and plans. (See also.)
“The novel that almost cost Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz his life” has become a bestseller upon publication in Egypt, four months after his death. (Via.)
Gawker’s new Kreepie Kats feature (above) can only be the work of the man whose Stone Cold Poetry Bitches attended last year’s AWP.