The economic downturn & publishing
Atlas postpones its spring list due to financial troubles. Elsewhere, layoffs and rumors.
Atlas postpones its spring list due to financial troubles. Elsewhere, layoffs and rumors.
Le Clézio, early member of the nouveau roman, has won the Nobel Literature Prize.
Maugham was famously critical of Henry James, whose work he thought was convoluted and pompous. Also sexless.
This week Narrative reprints Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour, first published in 1894.
“On taking thought it seemed to me that I must aim at lucidity, simplicity, & euphony.” — Somerset Maugham