These are the penalties paid for writing books
“I like to think that after firing this off, Dickens burst into tears, then got on the computer and played Web Sudoku for an hour.”
“I like to think that after firing this off, Dickens burst into tears, then got on the computer and played Web Sudoku for an hour.”
Salman Rushdie pans this year’s Oscar winners, Slumdog Millionaire especially.
Susan Orlean has abandoned Microsoft Word for Google Docs. (Wish I could get my novel drafts to fit.)
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Charles William Bruce, otherwise known in la casa de Maud as the great-grandfather who killed a man with a hay hook, has always been one of the most compelling characters in my personal deck of Notorious Ancestor Playing Cards. And now he’s the second forbear — his wife Rindia being the first — to whom I owe an apology. June . . .