Blogging and publishing
Today (2/12) I’m participating in a panel at the O’Reilly Tools for Change in Publishing conference.
Today (2/12) I’m participating in a panel at the O’Reilly Tools for Change in Publishing conference.
After reading Theodora Keogh’s obituary, I had to track down a copy of her out-of-print 1950 novel, The Double Door, which centers in part on a father’s affair with a young man who becomes his daughter’s lover. The Telegraph says the book was “inspired by the Marquis de Cuevas, who ran his own ballet on his wife’s Rockefeller money and . . .
James Wolcott writes beautifully about Barthelme’s fiction, which shows up the forced whimsicality of its imitators. (Via.)
Deciphering authors’ handwriting is no easy task. See, e.g., Willa Cather’s letter at the Morgan.
So many movies die in the planning, I believed Stallone’s Poe biopic wouldn’t really happen. Unfortunately, it might. (Thanks, JD.)