Last weekend I watched the documentary Turn Every Page. Here is the trailer: Before I watched his documentary I knew that Robert Gottlieb was Robert Caro’s editor and he was the editor-in-chief at Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, but that...
Here is Florida State University Diane Roberts‘s piece at The Atlantic, “‘Most Important, We Must Not Upset DeSantis‘”: In my senior Southern Literature class, I’m about to teach Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner’s great novel about how racism has warped America....
Here is a press release from the State University of New York at Albany: A University at Albany professor has discovered the earliest known full-length elegy by famed poet Phillis Wheatley (Peters), widely regarded as the first Black person, enslaved...
The list includes Dorothy Sayers’s Gaudy Night (1935); Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety (1987); Ishmael Reed’s Japanese by Spring (1993); Philip Roth, The Human Stain (2000); and Tobias Wolff, Old School (2003). Here is Emily Temple at LitHub: The days...
Yesterday I offered some thoughts on Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ decision to remove several of Theodor Geisel’s books from print because they portrayed “people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” Over at Slate, Rebecca Onion interviews Kansas State University literary...
