As Penelope Fitzgerald’s letters appear, Byatt remembers the novelist
A.S. Byatt recalls teaching with Penelope Fitzgerald, an austere & original talent, at a test-prep school for women seeking entry to Oxford and Cambridge.
A.S. Byatt recalls teaching with Penelope Fitzgerald, an austere & original talent, at a test-prep school for women seeking entry to Oxford and Cambridge.
Geoff Manaugh posts an edited MP3 of his conversation with Tom McCarthy, which ranges from memory and architecture to trauma and the spatial nature of repetition.
Margo Rabb and Peter Cameron are only two of the writers who’ve been surprised to have their novels bought and marketed as YA fiction.
14% of the U.S. population lacks the literacy skills to understand written instructions. Guess what percentage holds a third of the nation’s wealth? (Via.)
Is media notoriety commensurate with one’s willingness to stand around at parties and trade insults with frienemies? Some scoff at the suggestion, but my cats are receptive.