Wurlitzer speaks
The first installment of a two-part interview with novelist and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer airs at Bookworm today. (See also.)
The first installment of a two-part interview with novelist and screenwriter Rudolph Wurlitzer airs at Bookworm today. (See also.)
Fran Lebowitz explains (in video!) that Jane Austen’s continued popularity rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of her books, which are not actually romance novels. (Via.)
On Rachel Maddow’s show, the Haitian Ambassador responds (above) to Pat Robertson’s revolting and infuriating, but not especially surprising, claim that the earthquake is a result of slaves’ “pact with the devil.” As Alex Balk says, this rebuttal is “direct, intelligent,” and “filled with more history in one minute than pretty much anything you see on most news programs . . .
“I know what it is to be afraid every morning that by the evening you won’t exist any more.” Nobel Laureate Herta Müller urges prosecution of Romanian ex-spies.
Forget Roth and Wallace, says Sonya Chung, James Salter writes stories about sex that connect us to our whole human selves.