For him it is an incalculable loss
“Evelyn Waugh regrets to announce that he has lost a walking stick made of oak, preposterously short with a metal band around it.”
“Evelyn Waugh regrets to announce that he has lost a walking stick made of oak, preposterously short with a metal band around it.”
Vladimir Nabokov once translated Alice in Wonderland — badly, according to Victor Sonkin. (Via.)
The NBCC has announced its 2007 award winners, who include Kiran Desai for fiction and Daniel Mendelsohn for autobiography.
A Jeanette Winterson fan found a manuscript of her forthcoming novel, The Stone Gods, at an Underground station in south London last night. (Via.)