The impressionist
Chekhov “makes telling use, as Eudora Welty once noted, of the way people speak without listening to each other.”
Chekhov “makes telling use, as Eudora Welty once noted, of the way people speak without listening to each other.”
Electronic copies of Adrian Johns’ Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates are free today (2/1). (Via.)
At the 92nd Street Y, Gary Shteyngart, Jamaica Kincaid, Ilan Stavans, and others discuss Becoming Americans, which I reviewed for NPR.
Every time I pass this Carnegie Hall ad campaign, I think these happy people are praising God at an Oral Roberts revival.
To be read ASAP: Dan Rhodes has a new book out — about a suicide museum — and Scarlett Thomas’ Our Tragic Universe appears in the U.S. this fall.