John Updike’s trash, re-revisited
Liam O'Brien
John Updike, whose prolificity once memorably led a reader to inquire if he’d “ever had an unpublished thought”, wrote about a lot of things. Which is why it’s easy to… Read more »
John Updike, whose prolificity once memorably led a reader to inquire if he’d “ever had an unpublished thought”, wrote about a lot of things. Which is why it’s easy to… Read more »
It was a sad day for lovers of children’s literature when Maurice Sendak died in 2012. Sendak left a massive collection behind, to be divided by his estate and the… Read more »
This week would have marked the hundredth birthday of Dylan Thomas had he not drank himself to death at the age of 39 at The White Horse Tavern. Yet, The… Read more »
UPDATE: Barnes & Noble is not closing its Bronx store after all. As reported in the New York Times, the Bronx now has no bookstore. (No disrespect to The Lair—for purposes… Read more »
The names are in: Amtrak has announced the 24 recipients of its writers’ residency, which came close, but hasn’t outstripped, The Nation Cruise in the category of bizarre literary-corporate partnerships… Read more »
We mentioned last year that William Blake’s Sussex cottage was for sale for the first time since 1928. This week there’s a crowd-funding campaign in the works to raise the £520,000… Read more »
In 2004, Henry Reese opened the doors to his City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, offering a home to Chinese writer and poet Huang Xiang. In the 10 years since, 4 more… Read more »
Edith Wharton designed and built her three-story home in Lenox, Massachusetts, and I hadn’t known, though you might, that she was an expert in architecture and gardening. This house, built… Read more »
The publishing industry was yesterday coming to terms with a fact many of us have known to be true for quite some time now: there are a hell of a… Read more »
On Thursday of last week, the contents of Elmore Leonard’s home in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills went up for sale. Fans came out in droves to buy Leonard’s… Read more »