Dreams and shadows
Hilary Mantel once dreamed a whole short story. (Via.) Another dream she describes, about a library, reminds me vaguely of this.
Hilary Mantel once dreamed a whole short story. (Via.) Another dream she describes, about a library, reminds me vaguely of this.
Just noticed more starred PW capsules, for two debuts I want to read: Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home & Kathleen Kent’s The Heretic’s Daughter.
I’m enjoying my buddy Hayden Childs’ Shoot Out the Lights, his 33 1/3 homage to Richard and Linda Thompson. The book “features a fictional narrator describing the real events around the making of [the] landmark album.” Incidentally, in my experience, there is no better song for a woman in her twenties to put on repeat and scream-sing at the end . . .
Christopher Hitchens, who previously called the technique “extreme interrogation,” submits to waterboarding, admits it’s torture.
A dealer bought 100 books from a widow and discovered they were hollowed out to hide pornographic shots of her husband with many women.