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“The book educates you about the book”— NPR Profiles Philip Roth
In case you missed it: NPR’s All Things Considered spoke with Philip Roth about his new book Nemesis earlier this week. From the profile– Nemesis is Roth’s 31st work, and at age 77, he still continues...
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Books Acquired, 2.16.2012
The Chihuly book was too beautiful not to pick up for my wife—cloth bound and so orange. I picked it up along with Lydia Davis’s translation of Madame Bovary this afternoon at my fave used bookshop;...
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Malcolm Lowry’s “Big Books,” as Reported by David Markson
From “Malcolm Lowry: A Remininiscence,” the final chapter of David Markson’s Malcolm Lowry’s Volcano, a study of Under the Volcano: His big books, however, would at the moment remain these:...
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I Review Object Lessons, Where 20 Contemporary Authors Select and Introduce...
Object Lessons anthologizes 20 stories published in the Paris Review over the past fifty years. “It is not a greatest hits anthology,” advises the brief editor’s note, “Instead, we asked twenty...
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“Flaubert me no Flauberts, Bovary me no Bovarys”— Thomas Wolfe Writes to F....
Dear Scott: I don’t know where you are living and I’ll be damned if I’ll believe anyone lives in a place called “The Garden of Allah,” which was what the address on your envelope said. I am sending...
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“T.S. Eliot”— Ezra Pound
“T.S. Eliot” by Ezra Pound (from Instigations) Il n’y a de livres que ceux où un écrivain s’est raconté lui-même en racontant les mœurs de ses contemporains—leurs rêves, leurs vanités, leurs amours, et...
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Kinda Sorta Reading List of Novels from Ezra Pound
I have not written a good novel. I have not written a novel. I don’t expect to write any novels and shall not tell anyone else how to do it until I have. If you want to study the novel, go, READ the...
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A Creole Bovary — Willa Cather Reviews Kate Chopin’s Novella The Awakening
A Creole “Bovary” is this little novel of Miss Chopin’s. Not that the heroine is a creole exactly, or that Miss Chopin is a Flaubert—save the mark!—but the theme is similar to that which occupied...
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Lydia Davis on Using Nabokov’s Marginalia in Translating Madame Bovary
Tagged: Literature, Lydia Davis, Madame Bovary, Translation, Vladimir Nabokov, Writing
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Three activated sensuous strokes (Flannery O’Connor)
A lady who writes, and whom I admire very much, wrote me that she had learned from Flaubert that it takes at least three activated sensuous strokes to make an object real; and she believes that this is...
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