The Salter-Phelps correspondence
Selected letters of James Salter and his good friend Robert Phelps appear in the current issue of Narrative. Also, Pia Z. Ehrhardt reads some of her work.
Selected letters of James Salter and his good friend Robert Phelps appear in the current issue of Narrative. Also, Pia Z. Ehrhardt reads some of her work.
“This old white motherfucker and his wife rolls up. He’s like, ‘Young man, do you know where the Poe house is?’” The Wire and A.N. Devers on Edgar Allan Poe’s Baltimore house.
The New York Society Library features an exhibition of Shirley Hazzard’s (Transit of Venus) manuscripts, photographs, and more, through January 31.
Narrative’s free app for the iPhone and iPad includes all back issues of the magazine (a couple of which include my writing). I also like to read Electric Lit this way.
“[T]o correct a bad sentence satisfactorily is not always possible; it should never have existed, that is all that can be said.” — Fowler