Autonomous individuals, rather than half-people
Dwight Garner unearths Bradford Morrow’s fascinating 1991 Conjunctions interview with Chinua Achebe.
Dwight Garner unearths Bradford Morrow’s fascinating 1991 Conjunctions interview with Chinua Achebe.
The Paris Review announced today that Granta‘s Matt Weiland will join the magazine as deputy editor.
The great Chinua Achebe has won the Man Booker Int’l prize. (If you ever have the chance to see him speak, don’t miss it.)
Do book excerpts help sales? I’d bet good money some do, if mostly indirectly, by fostering advance word-of-mouth, etc. (Via.)
McSweeney’s has lost $130K because of the indie distribution bankruptcy debacle, and is holding a big sale, including a rare-item auction.