Banville event highlights
Mark Sarvas attended John Banville’s Christine Falls reading and discussion at the LAPL last night and returned with highlights — and a video clip. (See also.)
Mark Sarvas attended John Banville’s Christine Falls reading and discussion at the LAPL last night and returned with highlights — and a video clip. (See also.)
A full poem from literary agent Andrew Wylie’s 1972 chapbook: thighs/on my neck/I suck/the clit.
My Tournament of Books judgment — between Kate Atkinson’s One Good Turn and Richard Ford’s The Lay of the Land — is up at The Morning News today. Here’s the first paragraph: Vladimir Nabokov expressed contempt for the idea that fictional characters can influence their own destinies. “That trite little whimsy … is as old as the quills,” he told . . .