Dispatch from Twain’s final decade
A previously unpublished letter by Mark Twain on the failure of civilization appears in the December Harper’s.
A previously unpublished letter by Mark Twain on the failure of civilization appears in the December Harper’s.
“Niles, however, would take Bronson’s book only on one condition.” Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women to help her father.
My essay “Conversations You Have at Twenty” was apparently shortlisted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009. (Thanks for telling me, Alexi.)
This children’s book on ritual abuse — a product, no doubt, of the ’80s Satanism scare — is the kind of thing my mom would have sold at her ¨ber-fundamentalist bookstore alongside the Jack Chick tracts and Dungeons and Dragons exposés, so for me it inspires a dull sort of dread rather than surprise or amusement. (Via.) Even I was . . .
J.G. Ballard raised his children alone after his wife’s death. The Guardian publishes his daughter’s eulogy.