Fiction
March 22, 2010
V.S. Naipaul's Nobel Acceptance Speech
March 19, 2010
Austen in Connecticut
March 18, 2010
Michel Foucault Discusses Gaston Bachelard
March 13, 2010
Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit
Raymond Carver: Collected Stories By Raymond Carver (Library of America, 1019 pp., $40) Raymond Carver: A Writer’s LifeBy Carol Sklenicka (Scribner, 578 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
March 12, 2010
Interview with Jorge Luis Borges (1976)
March 11, 2010
Isaac Bashevis Singer says "Who knows?"
March 11, 2010
God and the Details
March 09, 2010
Money Trouble
In his early essay “Style as Craftsmanship,” Roland Barthes observes that the value of the novel has been determined, since Flaubert, “not by virtue of what it exists for, but thanks to the work it has cost … [the writer] roughs out, cuts, polishes, and sets his form exactly as a jeweller extracts art from his material.” Writers, Barthes says, “form a kind of guild … in which work expended on form is the sign and the property of a corporation.” READ MORE >>
March 08, 2010
A BBC Interview with Bertrand Russell
March 04, 2010
