A friend who heard my soundbite on WNYC earlier wanted details on the Literature in a Digital Age panel I’m moderating tomorrow at the Brooklyn Book Festival, so I thought I’d post them here, too. The panelists are John Freeman, Dwight Garner, and Sarah Schmelling. Given the topic, it should be a fun, wide-ranging discussion in which no one agrees . . .
At Bookforum, Sarah Manguso, author of The Two Kinds of Decay, offers a syllabus on the best writing about not writing.
William Blake’s Book of Job illustrations are among his works on display at the Morgan. (Slideshow; also, new Wilde.)
Lorrie Moore notes a comparison of Clarice Lispector’s work to the sweet plaster used to kill cockroaches. Like Jessa, I’m intrigued.
Around lunchtime Tuesday, email arrived from Philip Connors, one of my favorite writers whose work you may not know yet. (See, e.g., Why is writing an editorial like pissing yourself in a blue serge suit?) “As a follower of your continuing family revelations, I have to say it pleases me to know there’s at least one person out there who . . .