Susan Sontag on Claude Lèvi-Strauss
The anthropologist as hero: Sontag praises Claude Lèvi-Strauss in the NYRB, circa 1963.
The anthropologist as hero: Sontag praises Claude Lèvi-Strauss in the NYRB, circa 1963.
James Hynes, literary-horror storyteller extraordinaire, writes to second The Aspern Papers love — and reveals that he once wrote a screenplay based on the Henry James novella. “It got kicked around by a few people in the film biz (the way a cat kicks around a piece of prey before he snaps its neck),” he says, “but nothing ever came . . .
Inspired by her kids’ confusion over their grandma’s illness, Amy Koppelman will publish a children’s series: Is It Contagious? (Via.)
“I am a writer. I have books to write. What am I doing building a museum?” Orhan Pamuk on his latest endeavor. (Via.)
John Turturro, Mary Gaitskill, and Eric Bogosian gather Monday, 11/9, to read works from PEN’s Prison Writing Program.