(Poster via Boing Boing) The World Climate Conference in Copenhagen is winding down, but there has been some great reporting. Our friend Aaron Lake Smith in particular has supplied us with some interesting points of view at Audobon Magazine. David Corn at Mother Jones: “geo-politics trumped geo-science.” Thom Yorke is hanging out and looking like a derelict. Maybe trying to fit in with the protesters? Lit. The Rumpus talks Paul Bowles. I’d be fascinated to know what Bowles would think […]
The Sheltering Sky turns sixty
When the book appeared, in fall 1949 (it was finally issued by New Directions), no one else knew quite what to make of it either. But they knew this bleak, spare story about a young couple from New York who drift from city to city in the North African desert marked the arrival of a different kind of American voice. Tennessee Williams reviewed “The Sheltering Sky” in The New York Times Book Review and wrote that “it brings the reader […]
“The Sheltering Sky” turns sixty
When the book appeared, in fall 1949 (it was finally issued by New Directions), no one else knew quite what to make of it either. But they knew this bleak, spare story about a young couple from New York who drift from city to city in the North African desert marked the arrival of a different kind of American voice. Tennessee Williams reviewed “The Sheltering Sky” in The New York Times Book Review and wrote that “it brings the reader […]