Bechdel reviews in words & pictures
Alison Bechdel reviewed Jane VandenÂburgh’s memoir in graphic form. During copy-editing, she had to add em dashes by hand.
Alison Bechdel reviewed Jane VandenÂburgh’s memoir in graphic form. During copy-editing, she had to add em dashes by hand.
Paper Cuts’ comments about 19th century boardinghouses and bedbug infestations, and — as people take in roommates to pay the bills and the scourge makes a comeback — the likely impending rise of both, called to mind John Cheever’s bedbug travails, as recounted in Blake Bailey’s Cheever: A Life. At the end of 1939, Cheever returned from a summer job . . .
The Hopkins Review plans to publish a previously unknown and somewhat unusual early Walker Percy story.
At NPR today I discuss Brad Gooch’s new biography of Flannery O’Connor, a good book that, increasingly, I sort of wish I hadn’t read. An excerpt: Reading about a favorite writer is risky. No matter how diligently the reader tries to compartmentalize, disappointing revelations threaten to infect the very books that inspired curiosity about the author in the first place. . . .
CUNY’s Graduate Center is accepting abstracts for a one-day conference devoted to David Foster Wallace’s work.