Lethem, others on novelists’ unchartable locales
PEN posts video of Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible, featuring Jonathan Lethem, Inga Kuznetsova, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk, and moderated by Albert Mobilio
PEN posts video of Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible, featuring Jonathan Lethem, Inga Kuznetsova, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk, and moderated by Albert Mobilio
T.S. Eliot’s letters reveal his “surprising change of plans,” from the “Do I dare?” of Prufrock, to the “awful daring of a moment’s surrender.”
Here, in an MIT lecture, Jamaica Kincaid reads and discusses some of her early contributions to The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town.” She recalls being astounded when her work started to appear in the magazine, because at the time she was reacting against the way everyone else there was writing. One of her pieces, about a book reception for . . .
On June 17, I’ll be talking with Sarah Waters at the Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle about her postwar haunted house story, The Little Stranger, possibly my favorite of her novels yet. It’ll be tricky (but fun) to discuss the book without giving anything away. For the uninitiated: my appreciation appeared at NPR last summer. For a writer so gifted . . .