The envelope, please
My friend Terry Teachout announces the schedule and cast for his (and Paul Moravec’s) opera based on Maugham’s The Letter.
My friend Terry Teachout announces the schedule and cast for his (and Paul Moravec’s) opera based on Maugham’s The Letter.
UK bestseller lists date to 1974. Iris Murdoch’s The Sacred and Profane Love Machine sold well that year; it was probably confused with the Jacqueline Susann love machine.
Michel Houellebecq’s mom — octogenarian Lucie Ceccaldi — will publish her own book, L’Innocente, to clear the record.
A Dan Rhodes interview at Bookslut is the first inkling I’ve had that Gold is out here. Did anyone other than PW review it?
At a book party last night I witnessed what I’m tempted to call the New York media version of an Abbott and Costello routine — except it was an actual conversation, and I was a participant. Here’s how it went. Critic: [Upon introduction.] Maud Newton… Wasn’t there a novel called that this year? Me: I don’t think so. Critic: . . .