“I’m not convinced that the questions that have been raised for me by the writing I love the most could be answered by the authors themselves.” A new interview with Eula Biss, author of Notes from No Man’s Land, is up on NEA’s Art Works Blog.
Notes from Eula Biss
Bookchat on the Internet
Recommended Reading: What we talk about when we talk about books.
HBO Turns Down The Corrections
HBO turned down the television adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, despite an all-star crew: Franzen himself adapted the novel to television, Noah Baumbach promised to direct the series, and Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal were cast as leads. Novelist A-J Aronstein can now breath a sigh of relief; they won't be filming The Corrections at anyone's house.
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Someone’s in Hot Water
Sure, James Cameron's deep sea dive was cool, but talk to me when he does it in nuclear waters. Then I'll be impressed.
The Lost Books
Over at NPR, Parul Sehgal recommends five books “that have been restored to us, that have been reissued, reimagined or — in one instance — presumed lost and discovered for the first time.”
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“Here’s to you, old dears. You got this right, every one of you.”
Recommended Reading: Roger Angell describes life in the nineties. His nineties.
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