Denis Johnson reads
My pal Jonathan D. points me to “a 45-minute video of Denis Johnson reading — and dazedly extemporizing — from Jesus’ Son.”
My pal Jonathan D. points me to “a 45-minute video of Denis Johnson reading — and dazedly extemporizing — from Jesus’ Son.”
Nathan Englander was careful about what he read while working on his novel. Now he’s finished, though, and “his nightstand is in danger of collapse.”
How many times do Gonzales et al. get to say “mistakes were made” — in administering the Patriot Act, and more — before someone is held accountable?
TEV admires a new U.K. collection of Coetzee’s essays. The book received a tepid response from a critic who (mystifyingly) contends Coetzee’s fiction is only “super-competent.”