Happy weekend from the Free Text Book custodians
Textbooks devoted to Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil were part of the State of Texas’ high school curriculum in my grandmother’s day, evidently.
Textbooks devoted to Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil were part of the State of Texas’ high school curriculum in my grandmother’s day, evidently.
Speaking of Eudora Welty, not long ago I came upon a fascinating set of conversations that Virginia Ross and Sally Wolff had with Welty and her friend and former editor William Maxwell about each other in 1999. Maxwell died the following year. The two writers discussed, among other things, their opposing perspectives on using people and events from their own . . .
The company that bought film rights to J.T. Leroy’s “quasi-autobiographical fiction” is suing Leroy mastermind Laura Albert for a refund.
I’d forgotten that Eudora Welty once worked as an editor at the NYTBR, which is moving house today.