E.B. White’s other pig story
If you’re loading Instapaper with holiday reading, be sure to include E.B. White’s gorgeous “The Death of a Pig,” on grief over losing livestock, written before Charlotte’s Web. (Via, via; on White & the environment.)
If you’re loading Instapaper with holiday reading, be sure to include E.B. White’s gorgeous “The Death of a Pig,” on grief over losing livestock, written before Charlotte’s Web. (Via, via; on White & the environment.)
Katherine Anne Porter — writer, liar, social-climber, and expert divorcee and re-marrier — would have loved the drama surrounding her archives. (Via.) See also.
This cartoon — found in Mark Twain Himself: a Pictorial Biography, thanks to Macy Halford — exposes my beloved Twain as a fellow noise-intolerant freak. Evidently he rose on Thanksgiving night at the cartoonist’s house “to stop the clocks that were interfering with his sleep.” I myself have gotten out of bed to silence clocks in other people’s houses. I . . .
I invited myself to D.E. Rasso’s place to watch Sarah Palin’s Alaska. It was every bit as vacuous and grating as Nancy Franklin says, and also filled with fundamentalist dog-whistle moments. We wrote about it (after three bottles of wine) for The Awl.
“Why is it that as soon as you hand [your draft] to a reader, you get your best ideas for the story and you want to snatch it out of their hands and make them wait for the results of the next round of revisions?”