Little talk of literature in new Eliot bio?
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.
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.
Below writer and professor Carrie Spell offers an appreciation of her former writing instructor Mary Robison’s latest novel, One D.O.A. One on the Way, in the context of the author’s larger body of work. In their memoir Double Down, Frederick and Steven Barthelme describe a trip to a Mississippi Gulf Coast casino with their colleague, story writer and novelist . . .