Illness keeps Lessing from Nobel ceremony
Doris Lessing’s bad back — a side-effect of osteoporosis? — will keep her from attending the Nobel investiture ceremony.
Doris Lessing’s bad back — a side-effect of osteoporosis? — will keep her from attending the Nobel investiture ceremony.
Brock Clarke on Muriel Spark: “What is it about the books you love that make you hate the people who don’t?”
Henry James, “weary of stories about precocious little girls,” shredded Miss Alcott’s first novel.
“Physically, I’d flown the Southern coop. Mentally? Not then, not now.” Kit Meads contemplates The Mind of the South.
The National Book Critics Circle has unveiled its new monthly recommended books list — which, as I understand it, is designed to provide alternatives to mainstream bestseller lists — by posting inaugural selections covering all of 2007. MaudNewton.com favorites Junot Díaz and Edwidge Danticat top the fiction and nonfiction lists, respectively. Head over to Critical Mass for the full selections, . . .