Boys’ talk
“I write the kinds of stories that boys tell when they are talking to only boys,” says Junot Diaz.
“I write the kinds of stories that boys tell when they are talking to only boys,” says Junot Diaz.
W. B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming” is irresistible to Iraq war pundits. But what does it really mean?
This month Edinburgh reads Stevenson’s Kidnapped. (Donna Tartt has called the book a bridge “between the child’s world and the adult’s.)
For a generation after her death in 1937, Edith Wharton’s writing was dismissed as so much “violets and old lace.” People remembered her primarily as Henry James’ friend. (Via.)
It is not her biographer’s fault, says Michael Gorra, that some readers will like Wharton the woman far less after reading a new biography. (Via; excerpt.)