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Click the image above for an extensive collection of covers of Kerouac’s On the Road. How interesting to see all the different takes on the book! The Italians…
Susan Sontag has positive associations for me for a personal and I suppose fairly trivial reason — she sent a generous letter to me when I was director…
I’m trying out a new plug-in called Stray Quotes. You can see it in the left sidebar under the categories drop-down, under the head “Duly Quoted.” The plug-in…
Turns out Faulkner wrote a sorority pledge for a friend of his stepdaughter. Unfortunately, the full six paragraphs don’t seem to be available online. But we do get…
… even though he’s been dead since 2001.
At the Marvel of Manga blog, a discussion came up about Tintin in the Congo and its racist elements. To recap the controversy: The strip was published in…
For what it’s worth: David Lassman, director of the Jane Austen Festival in Bath, submitted copies of Austen’s novels to 18 publishers in the U.K., changing only names…
Two hours with Julio! (In Spanish.)
Gerald Nicosia asserts that Viking Penguin and the estate of Jack Kerouac are “deliberately removing my name from books on the Beat generation and Jack Kerouac.” The Kerouac…
Although BoingBoing has already copied the entire article (under the heading “Ursula LeGuin rips into Slate Magazine”), this post “on serious literature,” which appears on the Ansible website,…
When Borges (1899-1986) was eighty he visited Mexico for a week of talks, conferences, and tributes. He decided to visit the Maya site of Uxmal, although his hosts…
Fifty years and a few days ago, on June 26, 1957, after a night of heavy drinking, Malcolm Lowry died. Within a decade his books — or at…
In New York Magazine Daniel Asa Rose quotes Annie Dillard as giving up writing: “I’m tired,” declared the 62-year-old Dillard, who says that she won’t be doing any…
… it is a form of stupidity” (Alexander Waugh).
Juan Ramon Jimenez, that’s who. And the Sisters of the Holy Rosary aren’t too happy about it. Called Los Libros de Amor, a new book collects 93 of…
That’s the name of a book about the life of Yeats, which will accompany a major exhibition this summer at the National Library of Ireland. It sounds well…
Although he has a home in nearby Cartagena (one of the great colonial cities of South America), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (“Gabo” entre amigos) is said not to have…
The works of Samuel Beckett have been united for the first time under one imprint. UPDATE, 9 Sept. 2007: Publishers lock horns over rights to Beckett work (Image…
Will Self’s writing room. A 360 degree view in 71 photos by Phil Grey