Flannery O’Connor letters to be made public
Having waited the promised two decades, Emory University will unseal its collection of Flannery O’Connor’s correspondence with a longtime friend.
Having waited the promised two decades, Emory University will unseal its collection of Flannery O’Connor’s correspondence with a longtime friend.
Video highlights from PEN’s “Writers on the Environment” event (with Collins, Franzen, Isegawa, Iyer, Mak, Marilynne Robinson, Roxana Robinson, Rushdie, Shteyngart, Teller, & Whitehead) are up.
Amitava Kumar sends word that he’ll be reading from Bombay-London-New York for his “Post-Colonial Writing in a Globalized World” talk with Ilija Trojanow at the Goethe-Institut tonight. The section he has in mind, which I read while preparing for the Branding & Freedom in the Market Economy event last month, considers representations of Ghandi. I’m posting it in context here . . .
Was William Henry Hudson Argentina’s Thoreau? “We are still marching bravely on,” he wrote, “conquering Nature, but how weary and sad we are getting.”