W is for wanton: Inside MFK Fisher’s house
Michelle Green visits author MFK Fisher’s Last Home, where the warning sign used to read “Trespassers will be violated.” (Via.)
Michelle Green visits author MFK Fisher’s Last Home, where the warning sign used to read “Trespassers will be violated.” (Via.)
Junot Díaz’s Drown is one of the works an Oberlin professor says should replace The Catcher in the Rye on high school syllabi.
Judith Viorst, author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, wrote a 1968 book of poetry for adults, It’s Hard to be Hip Over Thirty.
Nabokov’s unfinished The Original of Laura comprises 138 index cards. Last weekend, Die Zeit thrilled fans by running scans of four.
Many thanks to all who made it out to the Katrina benefit / New Stories from the South party last night. It was a good crowd, and we raised $420 for KARES. (Today, by the way, marks the 3rd anniversary of the storm. As Gustav bears down on the Coast, IFC is showing the new Katrina documentary, Trouble the Water, . . .