1961 Melbourne over Yaddo or MacDowell
Looking around at his writing students, Peter Carey finds himself thinking that “there is no worse place than New York to be a young writer.”
Looking around at his writing students, Peter Carey finds himself thinking that “there is no worse place than New York to be a young writer.”
Bookslut favorites Andrew O’Hagan and Ander Monson read in Chicago tonight.
Israel’s Holocaust museum has just made public the diary of a 14-year-old girl who died in a Polish concentration camp 60+ years ago.
Sunday I came down with a cold that developed yesterday into a hacking cough. Dana assured me I was not alone. “The train sounded like a TB ward this morning,” she said. Hypochondriac that I am, I was soon lost in visions of my impending quarantine at Bellevue. The prospect didn’t seem so bad, on reflection. Sure, I might lose . . .
Why do the archives of so many great writers end up in Texas? Acquisition is “chess, not checkers,” says Ransom Center director Tom Staley.