Miami embraces Díaz (and I feel homesick)
Junot Díaz packs the house in Miami & says author Patrick Chamoiseau (Edwidge Danticat helps with pronunciation) inspired his footnotes.
Junot Díaz packs the house in Miami & says author Patrick Chamoiseau (Edwidge Danticat helps with pronunciation) inspired his footnotes.
My dear friend Stephany Aulenback used to take over this site every Friday. Then she retired from blogging and had a baby. Now that he’s a toddler, Steph’s started up again at Crooked House, where you can at long last see mock-ups for Beckett for Babies.
Of everyone in his family, my dad is said to be most like his grandfather (above, right). In personality, I mean. Not in appearance. The elder Newton apparently was so severe and domineering that his wife, Louise (above, left; not to be confused with Great Aunt Louise), rejoiced when her hearing started to go. No longer did she have to . . .
Graham Greene’s letters to his wife & mistresses lay bare his feelings — and are surprisingly rife with exclamation marks. (Thanks, Dave Lull.)
Waggish quotes “The House of Asterion,” “one of Borges’s more explicit invocations of Kafka, and specifically of Kafka’s parables.”