When Henry James sought directions
Henry James slept here: Terry Teachout visits Wharton’s house and recounts her hilarious anecdote about James asking for directions.
Henry James slept here: Terry Teachout visits Wharton’s house and recounts her hilarious anecdote about James asking for directions.
On the other coast: Mark Sarvas, Ann Cummins, and Mishna Wolff read for Swink tomorrow night at Tangiers Lounge in Los Feliz.
Pitmatic, an obscure miners’ dialect “so dense that it held up social reforms,” finally gets a dictionary.
The Scottish Writers’ Museum is set to grant permission for a Muriel Spark memorial in Edinburgh’s Makars’ Court, where Stevenson & others are commemorated.
Hilary Mantel reflects on the enduring relevance of Orpheus and Euridice, arguing that, in the era of modern rationalism, we banish the ancient gods at our peril. For some years I lived in Africa, in Botswana, and people there used to say that to see ghosts you need to look out of the corners of your eyes. If you turn . . .