In the (teetering) to-be-read stack
Laura Miller admires Zoë Heller’s The Believers, but says the sections on faith’s ecstasies have the air of ethnography.
Laura Miller admires Zoë Heller’s The Believers, but says the sections on faith’s ecstasies have the air of ethnography.
“I’m called the father of the modern graphic novel. If that’s true, I want a blood test.” — Art Spiegelman
As UCLA acquires Huxley’s archives, Michael Orthofer and Robert McCrum call for a decent biography of the writer.
“At the time I thought it’d be nice to start a line of coffee mugs with inspirational wisdom from Jelinek printed on them.”
I’ll pick up Vanity Fair this month for Wolcott’s review of the Cheever bio, a book my friend Lance won’t be reading. (See also.)