Byatt appearance
A.S. Byatt reads from her latest novel, The Children’s Book, at the 92Y this Thursday.
A.S. Byatt reads from her latest novel, The Children’s Book, at the 92Y this Thursday.
“I applaud, I mean I value, I egg you on in, your study.” On this day in 1900, Henry James wrote his first letter to Edith Wharton.
“I sometimes find it difficult to get on with people who use sentences badly.” LRB editor Mary-Kate Wilmers, profiled. (Via.)
Orhan Pamuk reads Nabokov’s “My Russian Education,” from Speak, Memory. (Via.)