Below writer Novella Carpenter answers Phil Campbell’s questions about her book, Farm City, which Dwight Garner calls “consistently involving” and “a serious, if tragicomic, meditation on raising and then killing your own animals.” The author has a couple of events in New York City this week, at the Horticultural Society and Vox Pop. You can see photos of some of . . .
My dad’s forebears were glad to tell you about my grandma’s Pre-Revolutionary Virginian ancestor and other lofty relations, but they seemed to suffer from a peculiarly targeted kind of amnesia when you started asking about the Newton line. I always assumed this caginess was limited to my little branch of the family tree, but recently I tracked down my granddad’s cousin, . . .
The New York Public Library has acquired Annie Proulx’s correspondence, early book drafts, notebooks, and sketches.
“We have sat here and consistently called books by women small & books by men large, by no quantifiable metric.” (Via.)
These are great days for the worried well. Hilary Mantel considers hypochondria. (See also.)