Charles McGrath, on using the Kindle
“[E]ven if you are an unreconstructed book lover, [reading e-books] will not be as hard to get used to as you imagined.”
“[E]ven if you are an unreconstructed book lover, [reading e-books] will not be as hard to get used to as you imagined.”
George Scialabba admires three new books on the role of storytelling, language, and cooking in human evolution. (See also.)
Brenda Maddox’s biography of George Eliot reportedly focuses on the salacious, such as the author’s marriage, at 60, to a much younger man.
This week TEV runs Susan Bell’s essay on Fitzgerald’s masterful Great Gatsby revisions, from Tin House’s new The Writer’s Notebook.
Roberto Begnini’s “Tutto Dante†ranges from Italian political satire to dissection of the poet’s verses, capped by a dramatic recitation.