On my ex-boyfriend Mark Twain’s autobiography
I await my copy of Mark Twain’s autobiography with slightly more excitement than trepidation (see also). Meanwhile, I like the related site This is Mark Twain.
I await my copy of Mark Twain’s autobiography with slightly more excitement than trepidation (see also). Meanwhile, I like the related site This is Mark Twain.
Hilary Mantel’s Telegraph essay on winning the 2009 Booker Prize is characteristically candid and insightful. (Via.)
Tom Stoppard, who’s struggling with a new play, contemplates death. He’d prefer being killed by a falling bookcase to dying at the height of sexual passion. Did I ever link to this 2007 interview?
It’s fascinating, given the way Muriel Spark so ruthlessly pared down her novels, that she chose to keep every scrap of paper for her archives. More ephemera: video of a 1971 interview, and Life’s Spark photos.
Geoff Dyer contemplates Roland Barthes’ Camera Obscura, on “photography against film.” The second half of Barthes’ book, written not long after his mother’s death, focuses on a photo of her.