The Decline of Artistic and Free Thought

  For more than a decade, Charles Mysack, a disbarred attorney from New Jersey, has been selling books from a personal collection of hundreds of used books, from a rickety folding table at the corner of 68th Street and Columbus Ave. in New York City. Mysack “has outlived the giant Barnes and Noble, less than [...]

The Updike Archives

Sam Tanebuam got an advance preview of the John Updike archives at the Houghton Library of Harvard University’s rare book and manuscript repository; the rest of us, however, will have to wait two years because that is how long library staffers say it will take to catalog the contents of almost 170 boxes.: Cartons deposited [...]

Sunday Literary Supplement: The Wednesday Special Edition

Here’s a piece from the Tuesday 08/11 edition of The New York Times that you absolutely must read if you care a whit about contemporary fiction:  A few years ago the Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin attended one of those literary conferences here where writers are asked to talk about their own favorites. Unwilling to make [...]

Finally …

Welcome back to another thrilling episode of “As the Feast Turns.” We finally have a balanced review of the restored edition of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Stuart Mitchner’s piece for Town Topics, Princeton’s weekly community paper, is thoughtful and without bias but not without his own criticisms of the text. One of the most important [...]

Ignorant Bloggers Jump on the “Feast” Train

  Valerie Palmer is a contributing editor to Planet magazine and she blogs at The Slog. Two days ago, Valerie contributed a blog posting regarding the reissue of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and Vladimir Nabokov’s posthumous novel, The Original of Laura in a dateline she titled Literary and Scary. Valerie writes: The Nabokov situation frightens [...]