Amélie Nothomb’s Sulphuric Acid
Emma Garman admires the novels of rock-star Parisian writer Amélie Nothomb — but less so a new Holocaust reality show parable.
Emma Garman admires the novels of rock-star Parisian writer Amélie Nothomb — but less so a new Holocaust reality show parable.
A posthumous collection of Muriel Spark’s writings will include her oddly compelling lunch party photo.
This Thursday night at the Brooklyn Public Library, Akashic Books celebrates ten years of reverse-gentrifying the literary world. “I think that literature should be consumed by more than just the well-educated,” founder and publisher Johnny Temple told the IHT earlier this year. “[W]e don’t need to just keep trying to sell books to the same people, these people for sure . . .
Raymond Carver’s widow wants to publish what she’s calling the original (pre-Lish) versions of 17 Carver stories.