I really do recommend subscribing to Harper’s — provided you have a week to fall into the archives as into a very deep well where your favorite dead authors happen to have stashed their work. Which is to say: I thought I’d read all of Mark Twain’s essays, but no, no, and no. Here’s an excerpt from a joyous 1906 . . .
The Brooklyn Rail has launched In Translation, and is seeking your submissions of translated fiction and more.
“A page produced on a manual typewriter was like a record of the torture of thought.”
Don DeLillo’s “Still-Life,” evidently an excerpt from his forthcoming September 11 novel, appears in this week’s New Yorker.
The relaunched Harper’s site offers subscribers full access to every issue of the magazine published in its 157-year history. Looks like I do have that 17 bucks, after all.