A passel of double-domes
Challenged by the Times’ Gregory Cowles to a game of Dictionary, Ammon Shea (Reading the OED) chose Webster’s Third, due to the edition’s bad blood with the paper.
Challenged by the Times’ Gregory Cowles to a game of Dictionary, Ammon Shea (Reading the OED) chose Webster’s Third, due to the edition’s bad blood with the paper.
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Last week Levi Stahl of I’ve Been Reading Lately ran a delightful series of excerpts from writers’ letters. Selections ranged from the chatty, catty, and caustic to the bereft but self-deprecating. His series was inspired by the publication of Penelope Fitzgerald’s letters (image above), and correspondence with writer Jenny Davidson. Coincidentally, Stahl and I recently exchanged some email about . . .
Take an interactive tour of literary Boston, from Henry Adams to H.P. Lovecraft & Elizabeth Bishop, courtesy of the Globe.
Tina Brown’s web venture, The Daily Beast, takes its name from Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop. I’m excited.