Packer novel incoming
ZZ Packer says she’s finishing her novel about the Buffalo Soldiers. See her next Thursday at the Katrina Benefit/New Stories from the South party.
ZZ Packer says she’s finishing her novel about the Buffalo Soldiers. See her next Thursday at the Katrina Benefit/New Stories from the South party.
In remembrance of an afternoon spent in the NYPL archives, reading Herman Melville’s letters to the Hawthornes, with Ms. Carrie Frye last week, I’ll start with a quote from Melville’s “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” published August 24, 1850: “But it is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot . . .
Bookmarked to read later: A tale of two Obama books: Why do progressives still not get it?
Girlbomb author Janice Erlbaum learns that she may have been group-home roommates with Laura Albert, aka JT Leroy.
Chinua Achebe will publish a collection of 17 autobiographical essays to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart. (Via.)