“A rancorous suspicion … of anything that seems literary”
Boston Review celebrates its 35th anniversary by posting a 1975 Susan Sontag interview. (Via.)
Boston Review celebrates its 35th anniversary by posting a 1975 Susan Sontag interview. (Via.)
At Bookninja, Granta editor John Freeman explains why his introduction to the Work issue is in video form.
“Where Austen offers us uncompromised satisfactions … George Eliot insists on dissatisfaction.” — Rohan Maitzen, in the redesigned Open Letters.
This trailer for Win Riley’s Walker Percy documentary announces that the film is coming soon. The New Orleans launch and screening are scheduled for March 10, at Loyola’s Walker Percy Center. (Via.) Percy’s first novel, The Moviegoer, is one of my favorites. See, previously: Walker Percy kept his accent, and in defense of Big Ideas in fiction.