Where Borges meets Kafka
Waggish quotes “The House of Asterion,” “one of Borges’s more explicit invocations of Kafka, and specifically of Kafka’s parables.”
Waggish quotes “The House of Asterion,” “one of Borges’s more explicit invocations of Kafka, and specifically of Kafka’s parables.”
Paper Cuts points to a 5,000-word excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s introduction to The Best American Essays 2007.
Would Emily Dickinson be medicated today? (Thanks, Max.)
Furnace Press sends word of a book competition on urban decay. The “Decomposition Series” will consist of books focusing on noteworthy abandoned sites in New York State. The five books in this series will be 40-60 pages in length with black & white illustrations. The first of these publications will center on the ruins of Sea View, a former tuberculosis . . .
“I am not the sort of writer who can produce a book every two years,” says Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.