Philip Roth, who just authorized Blake Bailey to be his official biographer, has written an “Open Letter to Wikipedia” wherein the author states his grievance with the site’s entry for his novel The Human Stain. Related: can we just give this dude the Nobel already?
Philip Roth v. Wikipedia
Kesey Documentary
A new documentary on Ken Kesey and his band of Pranksters "presents the LSD-loving pioneers who spawned ’60s counterculture in their own words and images."
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Balance of Power: Grossman and Beha, Reader and Writer
Lev Grossman's article in the Wall Street Journal, "Good Books Don't Have to Be Hard," drew an interesting collection of comments, as well as a considered response from Christopher Beha at n+1.
What Are the Chances?
James Tate’s final poem, which was discovered in his typewriter soon after his death, appears in the spring issue of The Paris Review. Pair with Andrew Kay’s Millions essay on the power of poetry.
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“I left him unfinished”
Recommended Reading: “Man Hole” by Natalie Eilbert.
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Making Mistakes
"These were my two first mistakes about honesty: I thought it meant relentless self-flagellation, and I thought it could redeem everything." Leslie Jamison and Anna Holmes discuss the mistakes they made as young writers.
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