Archive for November, 2009

Mini books at Featherproof

Featherproof Books’ free printable, foldable booklets offer samples of works like Blake Butler’s Scorch Atlas & Amelia Gray’s AM/PM.

Read more




The traveling impulse

Pico Iyer says Maugham, a “classic traveler,” disguised his hunger for romance and broke every rule of travel writing. (Via.)

Read more



Far from workaday

“The movie Keats [talks] the way the real Keats wrote. But does he talk the way the real Keats talked?” (Via.)

Read more



Outrage over the intrusion versus burning curiosity

I’m in the minority, I gather, but my favorite of Henry James’ novellas is probably The Aspern Papers, what with all the narrator’s scheming, the old woman’s secrecy, and the delicious melodrama of the finale. (The book centers on a biographer who’s determined to uncover a dead poet’s rumored love letters.) So I got a kick out of this passage . . .

Read more



Newsletter Signup

For regular updates, subscribe to my free newsletter.