For those of us who value a formal education done right, this volume is a glorious celebration.
American literature
Arts Interview: The Late E.L. Doctorow — Reduced to Art
“When people ask how I became interested in history, I answer it was through an interest in popular culture and disreputable genres.”
Fuse Book Review: “Selected Letters of Norman Mailer” — Many More Pieces of His Mind
It’s refreshing and more than a little nostalgic to experience the trials, triumphs, and tribulations of Mailer’s time through his own combative eyes..
Book Feature: Authors Bernhard Schlink and Joyce Hackett on the Craft of Writing and Writing About the Past
Sponsored by the Harvard Writing Program and the Harvard Summer School, the event was introduced, perhaps humorously, to the audience as a “meeting of German–American relations.” In reality, it was a more of a showcase in differences about each country’s historical imagination.
Book Review: The Pale King– David Foster Wallace Finds the Magnificent in the Mundane
If you haven’t before had the keen pleasure of reading David Foster Wallace, THE PALE KING is a fine gateway drug. Its 550 pages are broken into 50 sections, each digestible on its own without reference to the larger work The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Little, Brown, 560 pages, $29.99 By Michael de […]