Lydia Davis, whose new translation of Madame Bovary comes out September 23, blogs at The Paris Review Daily about why we need yet another translation of Flaubert.
Why A New Madame Bovary?
Outline Obsession
Writers are told that they should outline their work. Elizabeth Gilbert has outdone us all by writing a 70-page outline for The Signature of All Things. "I have no German Romantic idea about work. There’s no fugue state, you know? I could no more write at 3 a.m. than I could with a quill pen. I keep farmer’s hours and I have that sort of plotting and plodding way," she told The Daily Beast.
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at the utmost limits of writing itself
Christian Bök wonders about the future of conceptual poetry:"How do we write poems in a world where a spambot, like @horse_ebooks, gets to write all the great lines…?"
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Paper or Plastic?
Paper or plastic? Hey, you with the Kindle! Stop looking so smug... E-books aren't as green as you think.
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Jane Austen in New York
At the Morgan Library in NYC: "A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy." Read the NY Times review of the show here. And, if your hankering for eighteenth and early nineteenth century English art isn't sated by the Austen, the Morgan is also offering "William Blake's World: 'A New Heaven Is Begun'".
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Searching for the Female Huck Finn
Where’s the female counterpart to Ishmael or Sal Paradise, Vanessa Veselka asks. “When a man steps onto the road, his journey begins. When a woman steps onto that same road, hers ends.”
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You could have just written “Lydia Davis blogs.” and that would have been excitement enough!