When I Was a Loser controversy drags on
A parent still has her panties in a wad over a “lewd” essay assigned from When I Was a Loser. (See also.)
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 . . .
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According to a bio that follows Dorothy Allison’s gravy recollections, she’s working on a new novel, She Who. (Thanks, Dana.)