R.I.P. centenarian novelist Elizabeth Jenkins
Elizabeth Jenkins, a novelist and biographer whose work garnered the admiration of Hilary Mantel and Virginia Woolf, among others, has died at age 104.
Elizabeth Jenkins, a novelist and biographer whose work garnered the admiration of Hilary Mantel and Virginia Woolf, among others, has died at age 104.
Apart from the occasional Twitter flurry, I’m really only doing one thing in my free time these days (getting closer, thanks for asking). With a few exceptions. Next Wednesday, September 15, I’ll ask Rosecrans Baldwin some questions following a reading from his smart, taut, very accomplished first novel, You Lost Me There, about a scientist whose memories of his screenwriter . . .
Spilling the beans, the apple of my eye, salad days: Lisa Bramen investigates the origins of food idioms. (Via.)
I await my copy of Mark Twain’s autobiography with slightly more excitement than trepidation (see also). Meanwhile, I like the related site This is Mark Twain.
Hilary Mantel’s Telegraph essay on winning the 2009 Booker Prize is characteristically candid and insightful. (Via.)