Upcoming ebooks for UK travel this week: Jess Row, check; Charles Frazier, check; Abraham Verghese, check; TC Boyle, check, Laura Grodstein, check, Laura Lippman, check, Eliot Ackerman, check.
Guess who can't sleep on planes?
“Kafka wrote at bedtime because his stories were ‘a kind of closing one’s eyes,’ and he needed to reach a semiconscious state in order to draw from the depths.” —Frances Wilson on Kafka’s diaries https://t.co/cGMOpJyQyn
In the US, four major publishers are going head to head with the Internet Archive in a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit.
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Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater is a very great & obscene novel about an intolerable man. I argue that it exemplifies the moral work art can do—& that devotion to filth gives a resolutely secular writer access to a theological dimension. TY @yalereview.
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@GarthGreenwell@yalereview I love this. Reading those first Roth novels: I Married a Communist, Sabbath’s Theatre, American Pastoral—at 24 was seismic.