Minneapolis literati check in
Emily Cook of Minneapolis, guest-blogging at Bookslut, reports that everyone at Milkweed, Graywolf, Coffee House, & Rain Taxi is okay after the bridge collapse.
Emily Cook of Minneapolis, guest-blogging at Bookslut, reports that everyone at Milkweed, Graywolf, Coffee House, & Rain Taxi is okay after the bridge collapse.
While I focus on things other than blogging this month, I’m running a series on independent bookstores. Below New School MFA student Lorraine Martindale praises Caveat Emptor of Bloomington, Indiana. I love everything about this place. The mildly cranky, white-haired, bearded guy and the smart, cheerful woman who have both run it for years, who always have intelligent comments about . . .
In the new Open Letters: rehabilitating James Fenimore Cooper after Twain’s skewering, and reading Lem’s Solaris as translated from the French.
A linguist studying the origins of language looks to animal communication for clues. (See also.)
Twain’s Is He Dead?, an 1898 play about “starving artists who stage the death of their mentor to increase the value of his work,” debuts on Broadway this winter.