Winterson on the life of Patricia Highsmith
Jeanette Winterson admires Joan Schenkar’s The Talented Miss Highsmith. “Obsession is focused but not linear,” she says, “and this biography is the same.”
Jeanette Winterson admires Joan Schenkar’s The Talented Miss Highsmith. “Obsession is focused but not linear,” she says, “and this biography is the same.”
“One of the funniest women on the Internet — actually, one of the funniest women alive — is D.E. Rasso, did you know?” Thanks to The Rumpus’ Elissa Bassist for helping to spread the word.
Granta editor John Freeman’s list of the best debut fiction of 2009 includes Paul Yoon’s Once the Shore and Paul Harding’s Tinkers.
Electric Literature produces videos for some of the fiction that appears in the magazine. A handful are trailers of one kind or another, but most are “single-sentence animations” consisting of brief clips inspired by a contributor’s favorite sentence from his or her own story. The one above — my favorite so far — centers on a line from Michael Cunningham’s . . .