Personals, for the Bookish
Rediscoveries
It’s been forty years since a burst of new critical attention gave Anthony Trollope a new life. What is it about him that makes his work enduringly relevant? In the latest New Yorker, Adam Gopnik argues that the author was a master of gossip. You could also read Sara Henary on the author’s two hundredth birthday.
The Modernist Master of Sci-Fi?
If you enjoyed David Auerbach's piece on Thomas M. Disch, we recommend you check out this overdue profile of Samuel R. Delany, whose magnum opus, Dhalgren, truly is "like Gertrude Stein: Beyond Thunderdome."
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Emily Gould’s Mysterious Book Project
Emily Gould, former Gawker editor, author of And the Heart Says Whatever, proprietor of the literary cooking show Cooking the Books, appears poised to launch a new literary venture, Emily Books. So says The Observer.
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Rumspringa
"Could there be anything better, or worse, than Amish romance novels?" Let's find out.
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The Illustrated Giant
Recommended reading: Horn! reviews The Buried Giant for The Rumpus. Pair with our own Lydia Kiesling's take on the novel here.
Please correct the spelling of my name. (see above). We bloggers don;’t get paid so insisting that our names be spelled correctly is the least that can come our way.
Appreciate it.
Thanks,
Stephen J. Gertz
Fixed. Our most sincere apologies. Thanks for visiting.
I’m very sorry about that! I linked in haste. I enjoyed the post.
You know what they say, Lydia: Link in haste, repent at leisure : )
Also: did I actually recommend Vollmann to you?