Remembering Edward Said seven years after his death
“Said felt he had to transform every situation he entered”; any less “smacked of victimage.” 3 Quarks Daily excerpts my former professor H. Aram Veeser’s new biography of Edward Said.
“Said felt he had to transform every situation he entered”; any less “smacked of victimage.” 3 Quarks Daily excerpts my former professor H. Aram Veeser’s new biography of Edward Said.
A professor emails her old MFA students in South Carolina to tell them how intellectually superior the new ones at Columbia are. I dunno. Columbia has graduated many outstanding writers but also, one professor contends, some demonstrably terrible ones.
Yes! Wire creator David Simon has, alongside Annette Gordon-Reed, David Cromer, and Yiyun Li, been awarded a MacArthur (genius) grant. My pal Balk and I duel at sundown.
Lorin Stein’s first issue of The Paris Review is, like the books he’s edited and the magazine’s new beautifully redesigned website, elegant, edgy, and surprising, an unusual but cohesive mix of writing characterized by intelligence and precision and, frequently, humor. As Stein observes in his Editor’s Note, by the time The Paris Review was founded in 1953, critics had already . . .
Mary Gaitskill wrote her first published story at 22. Now it seems so misanthropic to her that “I almost want to apologize to the universe.”