In our morning reading: book recommendations from Ursula Villarreal-Moura, Ta-Nehisi Coates on the work of Tony Judt, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Leonora Carrington, Jason Diamond on Florida, Jessie Chaffee Interviewed, “Singles” Revisited, and More
In our afternoon reading: delving into Leonora Carrington’s fiction, Jason Diamond on the state of Florida, an interview with Jessie Chaffee, and more.
Indexing: On Spark, Comyns, Judt, Buckley 2X, Steve Martin, y más!
Tobias Carroll When I was in the midst of my holiday shopping, I picked up a copy of Muriel Spark’s Not to Disturb at Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore. I read (and was floored by) Spark’s Memento Mori earlier in the year; Not to Disturb is a bit less resonant but deeply enjoyable. It’s very Gothic — locked rooms, sinister plots, and multiple references to “him in the attic” — but there’s a Richard Lester-esque briskness at work as well.
Tony Judt Tributes
At HTMLGIANT, The Awl and at Tablet.
Bites: Media Battles (Ever-Present), Franco’s Face, Humility as ‘Sin,’ Tony Judt, and the Bad News For Big Business
New Media, Old Media, and E-readers Barnes and Noble’s e-reader, the Nook, looks promising as Kindle competitor (and book sharing device!). The Rumpus’ account of last week’s New Yorker Festival is titled “James Franco’s Face.” Jacket Copy suggests that because their paper gave Le Clézio’s Désert a bad review, that the Nobel Prize in Literature is becoming “esoteric” and “wrong-headed.” Ugh, close-minded print newspaper. And now to take back the above statement about print media back with Harper’s lovely “Blake–To […]