Archive for April, 2007

An inspiration to slowpoke writers

Lore Segal emerges with more fiction every two decades, and James Marcus finds her latest, Shakespeare’s Kitchen, worth the wait. (Sample Segal here and here; hear her here.)

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As Fool’s Gold appears

From the 3AM interview with Dan Rhodes: “Two hundred pages, that’s all you need. All books should be two hundred pages long. There’s no excuse for waffling.”

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Nothing now but t-shirt shops

Chumley’s, the Greenwich Village speakeasy where Fitagerald and Steinbeck tied one on, is closed indefinitely after a wall collapsed last week.

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A girl’s reasons for petting

Scans from On Becoming a Woman capture the “facts of life” for girls, circa 1951, including why the reading of fiction is not desirable. (Via.)

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Within the frame of his despair

Comparisons of Sándor Márai with Joseph Roth and Robert Musil disregard the Hungarian writer’s avowed provincialism, says Christian Lorentzen. (See also.)

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