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Roundup: For the Love of Benjy
Yesterday marked the debut of an off-Broadway staging of The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928 ), based on the first section of William Faulkner‘s novel. The New York Theater Workshop has a handy...
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Links: Ain’t That America
The Nobel Prize’s literature judge says that American writers are too “insular.” But what does some dumb foreigner know? Hubris alert: Big-name venture capitalist Tom Perkins has built a 289-foot yacht...
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Junot Diaz’s Victory Lap
Junot Diaz is just about done talking to you: By May, he tells the Cornell Daily Sun, he’ll be finished with readings and appearances related to his excellent 2007 novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of...
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English Into Arabic
Last fall I made a brief mention of Kalima, an effort by the United Arab Emirates to translate books from English into Arabic. At the time, the organization was working in conjunction with the National...
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Links: For Art’s Sake
Artist Cindy Kane apparently has an easy time making friends with her writer friends in Martha’s Vineyard: For the past few years she’s been working on a series called “Mapping Writers”, for which Ward...
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Links: Elder Wisdom
That post I wrote on Susan Bell‘s essay about revising The Great Gatsby? The Elegant Variation has the full text of it. That post I wrote on Charles Taylor‘s essay about Donald E. Westlake? Sarah...
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Links: A Winning Style
The nominees for the National Book Award were announced earlier this week. I can recommend two of books in the fiction category: Daniyal Mueenuddin‘s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, a carefully turned...
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Links: Plain Dealing
“Let’s keep it simple and clear prose-wise shall we?”: How David Foster Wallace marked up one student’s paper. A similar point by David Mamet, though in a different context: “IF THE SCENE BORES YOU...
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Crises Averted
Last Sunday the Jaipur Literature Festival hosted a panel called “The Crisis of American Fiction,” though the assembled panelists couldn’t agree that there was one. According to a report from the Times...
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Links: The Envelope Please
Anne Trubek, blogging again in her own space, takes on the question of criteria in book awards. Laura Miller adds some comments and fills out her argument more back at Salon. Bookforum reports that New...
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