Concerning Harold Bloom’s health
Critic Harold Bloom, 79, is gravely ill, reports the Yale Daily News. His classes have been cancelled. (Via.)
Critic Harold Bloom, 79, is gravely ill, reports the Yale Daily News. His classes have been cancelled. (Via.)
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 . . .