On the “enduring humiliation” of the Tolstoys’ union
Vivian Gornick says the difficult marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy “is something that Dostoevsky more easily than Tolstoy might have written.” (Via.)
Vivian Gornick says the difficult marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy “is something that Dostoevsky more easily than Tolstoy might have written.” (Via.)
If Philip Connors’ past work is any guide, the forthcoming Fire Season, on his job as a lookout, is bound to be deeply insightful and otherwise extraordinary.
In my absence, here’s Maximus Clarke — aka the guy I’m married to — on, and in conversation with, William Gibson, one of his favorite writers. Gibson reads from his new book, Zero History, tomorrow, 9/23, at the Union Square Barnes & Noble, at 7 p.m. William Gibson rose to prominence a quarter century ago with a unique hybrid . . .
Letters and diaries quoted in a new book reveal that members of Adolph Hitler’s World War I regiment considered him a “cowardly pig,” not a hero. (Via.)
Nobel laureate Herta Müller, whose work depicts the brutality of totalitarian Romania, is stunned to learn that the real-life hero of her latest novel was an informant. (Via.)