State of three-alarm emergency
Paper Cuts points to a 5,000-word excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s introduction to The Best American Essays 2007.
Paper Cuts points to a 5,000-word excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s introduction to The Best American Essays 2007.
Would Emily Dickinson be medicated today? (Thanks, Max.)
Furnace Press sends word of a book competition on urban decay. The “Decomposition Series” will consist of books focusing on noteworthy abandoned sites in New York State. The five books in this series will be 40-60 pages in length with black & white illustrations. The first of these publications will center on the ruins of Sea View, a former tuberculosis . . .
“I am not the sort of writer who can produce a book every two years,” says Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Biblical translator Robert Alter answers questions about The Book of Psalms, which follows on 2004’s excellent The Five Books of Moses.