Lit Crit goes narrative, sort of, at the movies
In Howl, the new film about Allen Ginsberg starring James Franco, a “trial turns into a seminar on literary criticism led by the befuddled prosecutor.” (Via.)
In Howl, the new film about Allen Ginsberg starring James Franco, a “trial turns into a seminar on literary criticism led by the befuddled prosecutor.” (Via.)
Dostoevsky’s early descent from cause celebre to bad joke took fifteen days. Daniel Kalder says his ego never recovered.
“If you were to send the 16th edition [of the Chicago Manual of Style] back to 2003, when the 15th edition came out, it would read like science fiction.”
Lydia Davis originally declined to translate Madame Bovary. Then she “realized that the style she’d dismissed as unremarkable, all those years ago, wasn’t even really Flaubert’s.” (Via; see also.)