Happy birthday (a day late), John Milton
In honor of the 400th anniversary of Milton’s birth, Philip Pullman reads from Paradise Lost. Also, a quiz.
In honor of the 400th anniversary of Milton’s birth, Philip Pullman reads from Paradise Lost. Also, a quiz.
The earliest surviving letter from Oscar Wilde to his lover, Bosie, is among the Wilde papers newly donated to the Morgan library.
Mathias Enard’s novel, Zone, except for a few pages of flashbacks, consists of one 150,000-word sentence.
Many people I know have no interest in reading longer-form works on a screen when printed books have always served them well, and that’s completely fair enough. Obviously I’m not hostile to the book as a printed object. There are hundreds (thousands?) of them in my apartment. No doubt there will soon be hundreds more. Nor, however, am I averse . . .
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