Recommended Reading: “Whale Love” by Bobbie Ann Mason and Meg Pokrass.
New Story by Bobbie Ann Mason
Raising Children and Writing Books
"Quite possibly I’m a narrower, nastier and less morally responsible writer now than I was the day before my son was born. I certainly hope so." We know Father's Day was over a week ago, but here's a belated link to a refreshingly cliché-free New York Times Bookends piece on parenting and writing, featuring James Parker and Mohsin Hamid.
MAN Asian Literary Prize Winner Announced
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin has been named the winner of this year's MAN Asian Literary Prize. Learn about the seven-book shortlist in our extensive write-up from January.
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In Which Samuel Beckett Didn’t Intend To Be A Writer
"He was a great exploiter." From This Recording, Samuel Beckett's recollections of James Joyce, in his own words.
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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."
“Louche but not bohemian”
In January, I wrote about the release of William Styron’s letters, which reveal, among other things, that Styron requested a book on Nat Turner after visiting “the most enormous house [he’d] ever seen” in Cornwall. At the Times Literary Supplement, you can read more.
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Google Knows You
Daniel Soar takes a close look at what Google is searching for in its users.
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Margaret Atwood Talks Twitter
"Time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folk songs in which the hero spends a night with the queen of the faeries and then returns to find that 100 years have passed and all his friends are dead…" Margaret Atwood talks Twitter with Robert McCrum.