Like Wodehouse, but flip, cynical, and preoccupied with death
Saki produced “strange, hilarious, black-hearted stories that came out of the decadence and facetiousness that the late Victorians loved and then hated in Oscar Wilde.”
Saki produced “strange, hilarious, black-hearted stories that came out of the decadence and facetiousness that the late Victorians loved and then hated in Oscar Wilde.”
Facsimiles and transcripts of George Eliot’s letters are available online in honor of the 150th anniversary of Scenes of Clerical Life.
The Public Library of American Public Library Deaccession tracks nonfiction books withdrawn from library collections over two years. (Via.)
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“I haven’t met a so-called experimental writer who likes the term,” says Lydia Davis. “‘Experiment’ carries the suggestion that it may not work.”