Obama, poetry fan?
Last week Barack Obama was spotted with Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems 1948-1984. (Via.)
Last week Barack Obama was spotted with Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems 1948-1984. (Via.)
Book TV is running live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. (Thanks, David.)
“Philosopher without thought but not without connections….” Harper’s excerpts the correspondence of Michel Houellebecq & Bernard-Henri Lévy.
Too bad the Hughes- Plath intrigue obscures the art, not only because people might enjoy the poems without it, but because they might not.
I’m feeling generous toward my home state since the election — so much so that the hardest part of compiling a list of Florida books was keeping it to twenty-seven. Why that number? Inspired by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey’s State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, Tom Nissley at Amazon’s Omnivoracious blog has been posting book recommendations for . . .