David Mitchell, when questioned about his language and genre experiments, particularly in Cloud Atlas and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, responds: “It’s a bit like asking a duck billed platypus if it should be considered a mammal or a bird.” The Millions also profiled Mitchell, though we never settled either way on the bird/mammal issue.
From word nerd to language animal
Appearing Elsewhere
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New Marilynne Robinson On the Way
This fall, Marilynne Robinson will mark her return to a fictional plains town in Iowa with the publication of Lila, the third novel in her Gilead series. Expect the novel to be featured in our forthcoming Great Book Preview, but if you can’t wait until then, you’ve got to check out FSG’s exclusive excerpt from the book.
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Least Favorite “Great Books”
Elif Batuman, Francine Prose, and Lorin Stein are among the critics, authors, and editors who reveal their least favorite "great books."
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Trashy reads
This blog post from the NYT Magazine's culture editor Adam Sternbergh rounds up some some well known lit lovers' suggestions for some of those of you looking for some "red hot summer trash" to add to your reading list. Maud Newton and our own Garth Risk Hallberg both recommended Lonesome Dove, so that's going on my reading list for sure.
I’d say his books are like birds because they allow the reader an aerial view of the landscape as you fly past hills and towns, ships and villages and peek into the windows of people’s inner lives.
I love his work!
kc