On not being Elfriede Jelinek’s Ideal Reader
“At the time I thought it’d be nice to start a line of coffee mugs with inspirational wisdom from Jelinek printed on them.”
“At the time I thought it’d be nice to start a line of coffee mugs with inspirational wisdom from Jelinek printed on them.”
I’ll pick up Vanity Fair this month for Wolcott’s review of the Cheever bio, a book my friend Lance won’t be reading. (See also.)
His picture in my study at the court: Gopnick discusses the discovery, in England, of what some believe to be a new portrait of Shakespeare.
“I’m always sorry when I hear of your reading anything of mine, and always hope you won’t…” — Henry James to William.
Two additional novels and a document believed to be a sixth section of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 have been found among the late writer’s papers.