Dear Mrs. Wharton
“I applaud, I mean I value, I egg you on in, your study.” On this day in 1900, Henry James wrote his first letter to Edith Wharton.
“I applaud, I mean I value, I egg you on in, your study.” On this day in 1900, Henry James wrote his first letter to Edith Wharton.
“I sometimes find it difficult to get on with people who use sentences badly.” LRB editor Mary-Kate Wilmers, profiled. (Via.)
Orhan Pamuk reads Nabokov’s “My Russian Education,” from Speak, Memory. (Via.)
The transformation of “historical fiction” into a pejorative term signals a misunderstanding of history and contempt for its uses, says Hilary Mantel.
Christopher Payne’s Asylum, a photographic history of state mental hospitals, depicts soaring ceilings, and rows of toothbrushes left hanging. (See also.)