Welty fans converge
Natchez will host a Eudora Welty centennial celebration. A local documentary about the author premieres at the event.
Natchez will host a Eudora Welty centennial celebration. A local documentary about the author premieres at the event.
A New York judge has thrown out Amazon’s sales tax challenge, ruling that “there is no basis upon which [the online retailer] can prevail.”
Dan Chaon rereads the fiction of his wife, Sheila Schwartz, who died of ovarian cancer four months before her novel was published.
Jonathan Baumbach may be best known among hipsters as the dad who has a cameo in The Squid and the Whale, but more fundamentally he’s the experimental writer who co-founded the venerable Fiction Collective in the ’70s when his third novel, Reruns, was not picked up by the commercial publishers who put out his first two. After Fiction Collective published . . .
Several months ago the L.A. Times’ Carolyn Kellogg pointed out how amazing it is that long-dead authors can “continue to exist, in shadowy form, on You Tube.” Today I uncovered several videos of the great James Baldwin. The one above is my favorite. It makes me wish he could have lived to see Obama inaugurated.* * But I reckon he’d . . .