Inside the NYRB Classics
Matt King profiles Edwin Frank, curator of the NYRB Classics reprint series. (Via; recommend a title here.)
Matt King profiles Edwin Frank, curator of the NYRB Classics reprint series. (Via; recommend a title here.)
The importance of John Cowper Powys’ work is widely accepted and as widely ignored, writes Margaret Drabble.
Brijit offers 100-word abstracts of magazine articles, including some that aren’t available online. (Arts link is here.)
Siddhartha Deb says Coetzee’s latest novel performs the kind of work intellectual disciplines like philosophy once did.
While searching for something on YouTube last night, I discovered that Google invites authors to read and discuss their work — and then posts video of the events online. Does everyone else already know this? Above is the clip of Junot Díaz’s appearance, but you can also see Aimee Bender, Tom Bissell, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Lethem, Kelly Link & Karen . . .