Frankenstein authorship debate will not die
Your only options two centuries on?: Either Frankenstein is a masterpiece by Mr. Shelley, or it’s so incoherent and clotted only the missus could have spawned it?
Your only options two centuries on?: Either Frankenstein is a masterpiece by Mr. Shelley, or it’s so incoherent and clotted only the missus could have spawned it?
Jerry Stahl braced for “your basic backwoods, teenage-accidental-shooting, hicks ‘n’ fascists saga,” but wound up breathless with admiration for American Youth.
Please read James Wood’s Roberto Bolaño appreciation, and then consult The Mumpsimus. A few highlights from the National Arts Club tribute are incoming.
Six years after my mom’s dad helped start a garment cutters’ union, he’d left the clothing trade, been divorced from my grandmother and remarried, and founded Bruce Motor Service. This photo appeared in the May 16, 1947 issue of Shopping News, a weekly Oak Cliff circular masquerading as a newspaper. The caption paints Robert Bruce as a man who liked . . .
Is everyone else aware that the NYU bookstore gives out free copies of the NYTBR the Tuesday before publication? (Many thanks to Shelley Ettinger for the news.)