Check it out. Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker staff writer extaordinaire, has a blog. Hopefully, it’ll be as good as everything else he writes.
Gladwell has a blog
Questions for the Librarians
Another installment of Ask the Librarians has arrived at emdashes, and it provides another fascinating look at the New Yorker.In this issue you can learn how the magazine got writers in its early years; who has had the most short stories published in the magazine all time and in a single year; all about the now defunct horse racing column; and most interesting of all, a history of the magazine’s editorial “Comment” column and how it took on a political tone over the years.
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New Books and Excerpts
Shooting the Heart by Paul Cody — review, excerptThe Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser — review, excerptThe Laments by George Hagen — excerpt (being touted as a “hot sleeper”)
What a windfall for the Dalkey Archive, the heroic publishing house (named after another O'Brien novel) that, like the NYRB, for years has been keeping esoteric masterworks like Stanley Elkin's George Mills or D. Keith Mano's Take Five in print. Couldn't happen to nicer guys. Check them out at centerforbookculture.com
Oops. I mean .org.