In online privacy news
The Justice Dept. broke its own rules, subpoenaed a news site for details of all reader visits on a certain day.
The Justice Dept. broke its own rules, subpoenaed a news site for details of all reader visits on a certain day.
My appreciation of The Paris Review Interviews I-IV is up at NPR. An excerpt: The advice on offer to aspiring writers is vast– and sometimes contradictory. In his introduction, Orhan Pamuk recalls discovering Faulkner’s interview while he was holed up with his first novel after dropping out of architectural school, and finding the answer to the question that seemed most . . .
“To sum up, my dear Guy,” wrote Flaubert, “you must beware of melancholy.” Barnes on de Maupassant. (Via.)