From Literary Hub:
“Wallace was brilliant but also just a dude, thinking about shit. This is an irresistible figure to aspire to, especially for young men like me. Growing up in Ohio, intellectual dexterity wasn’t exactly the most popular trait one could possess, so flagrant displays of it were kept to a minimum. But to read Wallace—with his seemingly impossible array of knowledge—is to discover a voice that somehow communicates radiant intelligence and “regular guyness.” His writing suggests that you can be smart without being pretentious, academic but still commonsensical, and, just as important, endlessly loquacious (or the written version of it) and still be an introverted neurotic.”
From Pop Buzz: “It seems oddly convenient that this past year, a large number of YouTubers suddenly realised that their lifelong dream was to write a book. Within the past few months we’ve seen hugely successful releases from the likes of Connor Franta, Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig and of course Mamrie Hart; not to mention the controversial release of Zoella’s first novel.”
From The Point: “The Wallcreeper does what the contemporary novel—the Very Good Contemporary Novel, that is—has largely failed to do: it takes global environmental issues seriously, not only with regards to logistics but by dissecting why and how the collective human psyche so often fails to cope with the problem. Yet in the end it’s difficult to say whether or not Zink is optimistic about the issues she raises: love and marriage, and our ability to save the planet. I find it hard to believe she would invest this much time and energy in these themes if she wasn’t, but that could be my own wishful thinking.”
From The New Yorker: “Enest Hemingway, who may well be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer, rarely comes to New York. He spends most of his time on a farm, the Finca Vigia, nine miles outside Havana, with his wife, a domestic staff of nine, fifty-two cats, sixteen dogs, a couple of hundred pigeons, and three cows. When he does come to New York, it is only because he has to pass through it on his way somewhere else. Not long ago, on his way to Europe, he stopped in New York for a few days. I had written to him asking if I might see him when he came to town, and he had sent me a typewritten letter saying that would be fine and suggesting that I meet his plane at the airport. “I don’t want to see anybody I don’t like, nor have publicity, nor be tied up all the time,” he went on.”
From The Times Literary Supplement: “How much sex did Virginia Woolf want? How much did she have? And what was the ratio between the two? The French writer and critic Viviane Forrester poses these as political, not prurient, questions. Her book, newly translated into English by Jody Gladding, won the Prix Goncourt de la biographie in 2009, four years before her death in 2013, aged eighty-seven. Forrester recalls interviewing Quentin Bell for a radio programme in 1973, soon after his biography of his aunt was first translated into French. “You show her to be a very complete, very intellectual woman, who loved life in all its forms”, Forrester began. Bell interrupted: “From the perspective of sexual life, one cannot call her a complete woman. She was cold. She was not normal from this perspective. In other relationships, yes, she was normal”.”
From The Guardian: “So here is a caveat lector: if you see an announcement of a “new” work by Scott Fitzgerald, or any other classic author with a ready-made audience, check their archive catalogue first (most of them are digitised). It is probably just unpublished, and many will argue that it should stay that way.”
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