Posts tagged: literature
- On writing and relationships
- One common bond linking McCarthy, Jackson, and Stein — three women featured in Elaine Showalter’s history of American women writers, A Jury of Her Peers — is that their spouses allowed them the time and solitude required to imagine, write, and produce. Even if their spouses’ approaches were controlling or their motivations questionable, the writing [...] [1 Feb 2010]
- Latin America is …
- From The Future of Latin American Fiction (Part I). a talk by Jorge Volpi. Latin America is extravagant and irrational, nothing can be done about it; its dictators are savages and inhumane, but we miss them as characters of a novel; and we find solace in its inhabitants’ ability to maintain their will to dream [...] [18 Nov 2009]