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File under authors I know, writing well: excerpts from Marc Fitten’s Valeria’s Last Stand & Whitehead’s Sag Harbor.
File under authors I know, writing well: excerpts from Marc Fitten’s Valeria’s Last Stand & Whitehead’s Sag Harbor.
“There comes a point when you can count the number of books you’re going to write before you die” — Ishiguro at The Guardian. (Via.)
“Mummy selected at random”: The New Republic posts reviews Nabokov contributed to the magazine in the early 1940s.
The earliest known dust jacket (circa 1830) wrapped the book like a parcel and is a pretty homely specimen.