The Leaver: Schenkar on dinners with Shirley Jackson
The WSJ runs Joan Schenkar’s insightful and very funny recollection of her paralyzing admiration for writer (and rumored witch) Shirley Jackson, the wife of her then-professor.
The WSJ runs Joan Schenkar’s insightful and very funny recollection of her paralyzing admiration for writer (and rumored witch) Shirley Jackson, the wife of her then-professor.
Rosamond Lehmann’s collected Bloomsbury letters reveal how friends and family reacted after Virginia Woolf’s suicide.
One by one, my idols go. Alex Chilton of Big Star was pronounced dead tonight at age 59.
Lapham’s Quarterly investigates writers’ day jobs, a favorite topic in these parts.