Secret lives of Maugham secret no longer
In Oscar Wilde’s long shadow, Somerset Maugham played it straight. Jessa Crispin reviews a new biography of the writer.
In Oscar Wilde’s long shadow, Somerset Maugham played it straight. Jessa Crispin reviews a new biography of the writer.
All week someone’s been searching my archives for the old design of this site, so here it is. I liked it better the original way, honestly, even though the paint spatters gave everyone else a headache. For a couple years you could still read the site in its original iteration even after the newer design went up, but we had . . .
“A story has to have a bit of narrative.” Sarah Manguso interviews Lydia Davis for The Believer. (Via.)
Goth side of a realist master: Emma Garman admires George Eliot’s novella about a man cursed with psychic powers.
E.B. White reviled the “outraged precisionists and comma snatchers†who ruled grammar and usage.