One of the delights of this website, and one of the things that continues to surprise me even now, after nearly seven years of blogging, is the email from readers far more knowledgeable than I am. Very late Tuesday night I posted a clip of an old Simone de Beauvoir interview about The Coming of Age, and wished aloud (okay, . . .
Is this really Simone de Beauvoir? I believe it is, and I wish I knew enough French to translate even part of this clip, in which she seems to be discussing La vieillesse (The Coming of Age). Also, any progress made yet on an accurate translation into English of The Second Sex? I mean, no rush or anything. It’s only . . .
The classic 1967 adaptation of Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, featuring Julie Christie, is out on DVD.
Sheila Heti talks with Mary Gaitskill, who wouldn’t mind having a wife so she could focus more fully on her writing. (Via.)