The art of the ditch
James Salter, who reviews a new book on Sullenberger and US Airways flight 1549, once crash-landed a plane, himself. (Via.)
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.