A conversation about literary pilgrimages with my favorite Poe fan last week reminded me that I never told you about my visit to the Charles Dickens Museum in London. The delay is fortuitous, I guess, because really, what better time than now to talk about the house of The Man Who Invented Christmas? Dickens lived at 48 Doughty Street for . . .
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The minute you meet ScrollMotion co-founder Josh Koppel, you know you’re in the company of a visionary. Intense, smart, and unpretentious — quick-thinking and quick-talking — Koppel is a writer whose unconventional memoir appeared just after September 11, 2001, and in short order wound up in a landfill. The experience would have left many authors furious and devastated, but it . . .
Horace Engdahl, the Swedish Academy secretary who has called Europe the center of the literary world, will step down.
The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges’ Library of Babel, which I dip into when I’m feeling brave, quantifies the collection. (Via.)