Rationing her words as carefully as her cigarettes
Lionel Shriver says she’s “one of those horribly unspontaneous writers who schemes everything ahead of time.”
Lionel Shriver says she’s “one of those horribly unspontaneous writers who schemes everything ahead of time.”
On Brian Lehrer, Jonathan Rosen & Stephen Prothero discuss Jesus in Jewish culture in advance of Sunday’s What’s He Doing Here? festival.
Francisco Goldman recently acknowledged that potential converts to the work of Roberto Bolaño might be turned off by the media “hype assault.” Yet he argued, at a National Arts Club tribute to the late writer, that the praise being heaped on Bolaño originates not with newspaper editors moving in lockstep, nor with the publisher’s publicity department, but with readers themselves. . . .
A poetry professor of Indian extraction recycles old manuscripts at the college where he teaches, and becomes an object of suspicion. (Thanks, Max.)
Having waited the promised two decades, Emory University will unseal its collection of Flannery O’Connor’s correspondence with a longtime friend.