VQR on South America in the 21st Century
VQR plots the contents of its new South America issue on a map of the continent. (Daniel Alarcón co-edited.)
VQR plots the contents of its new South America issue on a map of the continent. (Daniel Alarcón co-edited.)
“A big problem with the biographical evaluation of Ellison … is that he was so much smarter and a better writer than most of the people around him.”
A mid-November deadline looms, and between work and writing, I don’t have much steam left for books, email, or blogging. In fact, I’m at about 65% on the brain-deadness scale. Which translates into a whole lot of YouTube. So while my mother-in-law, Jane, recently enjoyed all 3500 pages of In Search of Lost Time, then read a new biography of . . .
A parent still has her panties in a wad over a “lewd” essay assigned from When I Was a Loser. (See also.)
In the Guardian last week, Orhan Pamuk recounted how, while writing his first novel, he read the Paris Review’s author interviews to bolster his own resolve. When in 1977 in Istanbul I first read Faulkner in the Paris Review, I felt as elated as if I had stumbled on a sacred text. I was 25 years old, living with my . . .