Books in hard times
Mike Cane researches publishing in the Great Depression. Previously: Was 1935 “the worst time in history to be starting out as a writer”?
Mike Cane researches publishing in the Great Depression. Previously: Was 1935 “the worst time in history to be starting out as a writer”?
Alex Balk ranks Philip Larkin’s poems, but omits “Here,” explaining, “It’s his ‘Suedehead.’”
David Foster Wallace’s “All That,” a story about a toy cement mixer that the narrator’s parents claim has magical properties, appears in the current New Yorker.
To date Google has digitized 10 million books. On what terms will it make this vast library available to readers? (Via.)
A second Second Sex: A new English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s foundational feminist text is out at last — in the UK. We’ll get it in April. (See also.)