Not the little woman you thought she was
Louisa May Alcott wrote what she called “moral pap for the young” for the money. She also published edgy pulp, and Civil War hospital dispatches.
Louisa May Alcott wrote what she called “moral pap for the young” for the money. She also published edgy pulp, and Civil War hospital dispatches.
James Salter, who reviews a new book on Sullenberger and US Airways flight 1549, once crash-landed a plane, himself. (Via.)
“‘In his lovemaking I now think there was an autistic quality.’” Jonathan Dee contemplates Coetzee’s latest experiment in memoir, and the “‘feeling of a writer deforming his medium.’”
A Chinese court has sentenced poet, professor, and dissident Liu Xiaobo to eleven years in prison.
The NYPL dips into its archives, examines William S. Burroughs’ Christmastime correspondence.