Fighting fire with Connors
If Philip Connors’ past work is any guide, the forthcoming Fire Season, on his job as a lookout, is bound to be deeply insightful and otherwise extraordinary.
If Philip Connors’ past work is any guide, the forthcoming Fire Season, on his job as a lookout, is bound to be deeply insightful and otherwise extraordinary.
In my absence, here’s Maximus Clarke — aka the guy I’m married to — on, and in conversation with, William Gibson, one of his favorite writers. Gibson reads from his new book, Zero History, tomorrow, 9/23, at the Union Square Barnes & Noble, at 7 p.m. William Gibson rose to prominence a quarter century ago with a unique hybrid . . .
Letters and diaries quoted in a new book reveal that members of Adolph Hitler’s World War I regiment considered him a “cowardly pig,” not a hero. (Via.)
Nobel laureate Herta Müller, whose work depicts the brutality of totalitarian Romania, is stunned to learn that the real-life hero of her latest novel was an informant. (Via.)
The King James Bible, “the founding text of the British Empire,” will soon be four hundred years old.