Walcott withdraws
Derek Walcott, citing “low tactics,” withdraws candidacy for Oxford poetry slot after sexual harassment claims. (Via.)
Derek Walcott, citing “low tactics,” withdraws candidacy for Oxford poetry slot after sexual harassment claims. (Via.)
At The Believer, John Crowley ponders the difficulties and absurdities of genre ghettoization. (Via.)
A.S. Byatt says she’s losing the “novel writer’s compulson to do damage to characters.”
I’ve praised Greg Ames’ short story “Physical Discipline” so many times, with so little specificity, it’s become embarrassing. Even more embarrassing: the fact that his first novel, Buffalo Lockjaw is out, and I have yet to read it (unlike Aimee Bender and Sam Lipsyte, whose quotes appear on the back cover). Ames is featured tomorrow night at Beatrice editor Ron . . .