More on Lydia Davis
Dr. Doyle
When Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't writing Sherlock Holmes, he was a practicing doctor. Thomas Goetz's new book The Remedy discusses the history of tuberculosis and Doyle's role in finding a cure with Robert Koch. The Daily Beast interviewed Goetz about how he came up with the idea for the book. "These two characters were part of a much larger story about how scientific discoveries evolve into social change."
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Consider the Chapter
"What does the chapter’s beginnings reveal about the way our books and stories are still put together?" Nicholas Dames answers with an essay in The New Yorker.
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Summer Reading, happened so fast.
Now that it's officially summer, you might find yourself thinking about all of the books you might like to read in the sun. New Directions has a great list (summer of Lispector!), and of course there's the LARB's #OccupyGaddis summer book club.
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Top Quark
The third annual 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize will be judged by Chinese-American novelist Gish Jen. The first place award, called the "Top Quark" will win a cash prize of $1,000. Might we suggest nominating your favorite Millions article?
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“Oh, you Irish—you’re such MAR-velous storytellers”
The Testament of Mary author Colm Tóibín was interviewed as part of the President’s Reading Series at Johns Hopkins University, and he spoke about the difference between “being a reader, and being an Irish reader.”
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