Three for Tuesday: An Interview with Tim Parks
Topics discussed: mozzarella sticks, Nick During, incompetence, silliness, fear, Martin Amis, Facebook comments, George Orwell, the New York Review of Books, Charlie Hebdo, Henry Green, the Nobel Prize, John Banville, Tomas Tranströmer, Karl Ove… Read more »
Tennessee Williams wrote D.H. Lawrence fan fiction (sort of)
Ah, fan fiction. Do you prefer The Hunger Games or One Direction? How about a mash up? Apparently fan fiction’s not just an internet-era thing—it has a long history. An… Read more »
This month in 1913: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice becomes The Magic Mountain, D.H. Lawrence’s blood is true, and the future is open
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . . It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the… Read more »
A century later, has E.M. Forster’s happier year finally arrived?
In the opening scene of E.M. Forster’s novel Maurice, an adolescent Maurice Hall takes a long walk with his prep school teacher, Mr. Ducie, to learn about the mysteries of… Read more »
DH Lawrence’s poetry to be published, uncensored, for the first time
D.H. Lawrence, one of the twentieth century’s most admired novelists, has never been known for his poetry. His best known work confronted British social hypocrisy and sexual mores in the… Read more »
Croydon: A literary town?
What do Kate Moss and Lord Byron have in common? The Evening Standard can sensationally reveal: nothing. Croydon, the suburb of south London famed for its hairstyle, recently applied for… Read more »