Banville on The Infinities, and more
“If I’m anything I’m a post- humanist.” John Banville talks with Anne K. Yoder. (See also.)
“If I’m anything I’m a post- humanist.” John Banville talks with Anne K. Yoder. (See also.)
HLO interviews Miljenko Jergovic, author of the excellent Sarajevo Marlboro, who apparently also works as a journalist. (Via.)
Vladimir Nabokov famously instructed his wife Vera to destroy his final, unfinished novel, The Original of Laura, if he didn’t live to complete it. At his death, the draft consisted of a stack of notecards which he’d shuffled through, added to, and rewritten right up until the end. Vera, having once saved an early version of Lolita from the incinerator, . . .
The first installment of Chapters, the Girls Write Now reading series I’m curating, will feature the talented Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the new novel Wench. She’ll be introduced by my friend and fellow board member Tayari Jones, and after her guest reading, several of the girls will share their own work. The event is this Friday at the Center for . . .
Robert Pinsky is judging 3 Quarks Daily’s Arts & Literature Prize for blog entries written after February 21, 2009. First prize is $1000. Nominate your favorites.