A girl’s reasons for petting
Scans from On Becoming a Woman capture the “facts of life” for girls, circa 1951, including why the reading of fiction is not desirable. (Via.)
Scans from On Becoming a Woman capture the “facts of life” for girls, circa 1951, including why the reading of fiction is not desirable. (Via.)
Comparisons of Sándor Márai with Joseph Roth and Robert Musil disregard the Hungarian writer’s avowed provincialism, says Christian Lorentzen. (See also.)
Laurie Anderson reads from Night Life tomorrow night at Amanda Stern’s Happy Ending series. Lorin Stein and Noy Holland also read.
Nick Antosca‘s first novel, Fires, is just out from Impetus Press, and sits in my to-be-read pile. He contributed this appreciation at my request. If you pass down the gospel of James Salter, you are probably a writer. Salter’s austere and humbling fiction is mostly unknown to the casual reader but canonical for a disproportionate number of widely admired . . .