From time to time I’m posting bookstore appreciations from readers. Below Matthew Tiffany of Condalmo praises Longfellow Books. Portland, Maine has a good number of bookstores, considering its small size. Along with the late (and missed) Casco Bay Books, you have Yes Books, with its amazing selection of used and rare books. (Leave your wallet at home and take . . .
Doris Lessing is one of many writers once barred from entering the U.S. by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
I was trying to be objective about Eggers’ Where the Wild Things Are script, but now that I know he’s written an adult novelization, that’s out the window. (Via.)
As far as I can tell, some twenty-odd years after the events of Eudora Welty’s Delta Wedding, and about eight years before the novel appeared, my great-grandfather was hired to manage the plantation Welty fictionalized in it. The book is set in September 1923, at Shellmound, just north of Greenwood, Mississippi. Very little happens in Delta Wedding, and apparently that was intentional. . . .
Hearings will be held this Tuesday, the 30th, on those postage rate hikes that only apply to small publications like the NYRB.