Matthiessen’s Mr. Watson in Shadow Country
Shrinking Mr. Watson: Peter Matthiessen’s epic Florida trilogy has been condensed into a single volume, as the author originally intended.
Shrinking Mr. Watson: Peter Matthiessen’s epic Florida trilogy has been condensed into a single volume, as the author originally intended.
The Boston Globe runs some frames from Howard Zinn’s new graphic novel history of the United States.
Next up in the NY Times’ Reading Room: a discussion of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.
The delightful Jack Pendarvis, author of Your Body is Changing and fellow fan of Peter DeVries, lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he’s the visiting writer-in-residence at Ole Miss. (Look for him next time you’re eating oysters at City Grocery.) His first novel, Awesome, will be published by MacAdam Cage in July. It’s “about a happy, rich, sexy, handsome giant who . . .
More covers should be as beautifully designed as those for fictitious author Constance Eakins’ fictitious books.