Gay Talese’s highly detailed accounting of his daily routine — what he reads, how he works — is fascinating.
‘But you must read’
O’Reilly Book Banned
Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln book is banned from Ford's Theatre because of "mistakes."
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An “Illegal Library”
Banned Books Week is a few weeks away, but this youngster is taking matters into her own hands.
The Desk on the Floss
Stop, thief! It appears that George Eliot's writing desk has been stolen from the Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery in England.
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Zadie Smith on Charity
“But money is not neutral; it changes everything, including the ability to neutrally judge what people will or will not do for it.” Zadie Smith has a short essay in the New Yorker on the trials of lending money to a friend.
Thee, Compared
Recommended Reading: Adam Bertocci presents alternate forms for Shakespeare’s 18th sonnet.
Roger Angell on the Triple Play
Even those who detest the sport can feel the joys of reading Roger Angell’s baseball writing. Case in point: his latest dispatch, in which he remarks on a recent triple play by saying, “What’s great about [triple plays] isn’t really their scarcity but the fact that they beautifully illustrate the invisible force that hovers about each pitch and play and inning and game in this pausing, staccato, and inexorably accruing pastime: the laws of chance.”
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