Small railroad + 150 books/month = eventual insanity
About 150 books arrive in the mail every month. It gets hard to walk around my apartment. So I relate to the necessity — and impossibility — of culling.
About 150 books arrive in the mail every month. It gets hard to walk around my apartment. So I relate to the necessity — and impossibility — of culling.
Magnus Linklater argues that the BBC ignores Scotland and Scottish writers and is “shamefully London-centric.”
Orhan Pamuk has nearly completed Masumiyet Muzesi (The Museum of Innocence), a love story set in Istanbul which has been in the works for 10+ years.
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Bookmark for myself: there’s a new A.L. Kennedy short story — “Wasps” — in The New Yorker. (Via.)