A situation no character in Cosmopolis could imagine
“There is a strange, shifting air of congruence between Don DeLillo’s two most recent novels, Cosmopolis (2003) and Falling Man.”
“There is a strange, shifting air of congruence between Don DeLillo’s two most recent novels, Cosmopolis (2003) and Falling Man.”
New Letters on the Air‘s latest podcast is an interview with Tayari Jones, who’s working on her third novel at MacDowell.
Rorty thought writers shouldn’t have to choose between writing philosophy or literature, but quipped that, in U.S. academe, “you have to worry about what department” you’re in.
“She spends evenings reading her favorite book, the Latvian-English dictionary.” Zan recalls teenage visits to Latvia, and ponders the art of translation.
James P. Othmer is a fellow contributor to the high school loser anthology. His debut novel, The Futurist, sits in my to-be-read pile. Below he discusses the enraged reactions of trend forecasters to his fictional portrayal of the profession. Last summer, Ted Genoways, editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review, which published the first chapter of The Futurist, was approached . . .