Flannery O’Connor on the grotesque in Southern fiction
“I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
“I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
HBO to invent sleeping pill in the form of literary adaptation. Or maybe you’re a fan of the Bascombe trilogy. (Via.)
On Luigi Serafini’s Codex Seraphinianus: How mysterious is a mysterious text if Calvino wrote the introduction? (Via.)
DeLillo’s aim in Falling Man, says Adam Kirsch, “is almost that of a lyric poet — not so much to tell a story as to evoke a state of mind.”
Alice Tremlow reflects on the bandwidth of art books in an Internet culture.