Pattern after the fact: a talk with Lydia Davis
“A story has to have a bit of narrative.” Sarah Manguso interviews Lydia Davis for The Believer. (Via.)
“A story has to have a bit of narrative.” Sarah Manguso interviews Lydia Davis for The Believer. (Via.)
Goth side of a realist master: Emma Garman admires George Eliot’s novella about a man cursed with psychic powers.
E.B. White reviled the “outraged precisionists and comma snatchers†who ruled grammar and usage.
Don’t miss the great Times profile of Padgett Powell, my former writing prof, who reads from his new book later this week.