Where the Wild Things Are, a novel by Dave Eggers?
I was trying to be objective about Eggers’ Where the Wild Things Are script, but now that I know he’s written an adult novelization, that’s out the window. (Via.)
I was trying to be objective about Eggers’ Where the Wild Things Are script, but now that I know he’s written an adult novelization, that’s out the window. (Via.)
As far as I can tell, some twenty-odd years after the events of Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding, and about eight years before the novel appeared, my great-grandfather was hired to manage the plantation Welty fictionalized in it. The book is set in September 1923, at Shellmound, just north of Greenwood, Mississippi. Very little happens in Delta Wedding, and apparently that was intentional. . . .
Hearings will be held this Tuesday, the 30th, on those postage rate hikes that only apply to small publications like the NYRB.
Alison Bechdel flinched with rueful recognition on reading that Charles Schulz’s wife had this on her mental to-do list: 9-9:15, Comfort Sparky.
Mark Sarvas’ praise for the depiction of fathers and sons in Sándor Márai’s novel The Rebels led me back to Kafka’s Letter to Father (a gift a friend brought me from Prague several years ago). It’s an illuminating document — complex, sad, highly self-serving — but not a work of art. Writing about the feelings a father inspires is difficult. . . .