Archive for August, 2010

On grief — and dying without finishing your book

Just about every time my father-in-law (above) and I talked on the phone, we began by filling each other in on whatever progress we’d made with the books we were writing. I don’t remember exactly when he decided to start working on a study of Macbeth, but I remember his interest developing and his arguments germinating, and I remember clinking . . .

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Eugenides Q&A

At FSG’s Work In Progress, Jeffrey Eugenides talks with Jonathan Galassi about the genesis of the “more tightly dramatized, less fanciful” novel he’s finishing up.

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Disabled in love and lust

Emma Garman admires Jean-Christophe Valtat’s 03, calling the novella “Nabokovian in its outrageously solipsistic stylishness.” See also Valtat on the persistence of childhood.

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