Beauvoir centenary pop quiz
On Simone de Beauvoir’s 100th birthday, France ogles her naked butt. Elsewhere: a quiz.
On Simone de Beauvoir’s 100th birthday, France ogles her naked butt. Elsewhere: a quiz.
The OUP’s blog posts Philip Pullman’s introduction to the reissue of Milton’s Paradise Lost.
Every suggestion that Borges foretold the Internet provides an excuse to mention Mr. Maud’s Book of Sand game. (Via.)
After The Wire, “why not return to its original inspiration (sez the midlist novelist) and pick up a book?”
Below novelist Jami Attenberg talks with Kate Christensen about unexpected convergences in their most recent books. You can meet Attenberg (pictured below) tonight at Barnes & Noble Chelsea, at an event for The Kept Man, which I read over the holidays. And as long as we’re on the subject of kept men and great men, here’s Attenberg on dirty old . . .