‘Ted Hughes, archives & alligators,’ how writers’ papers end up in British & American libraries [via @aldaily] / David Shields on life, art, Franzen and DFW in the Los Angeles Review of Books / Inside Norman Mailer‘s home / The neglect of Robert Louis Stevenson in the UK [via @Twitchelmore] / “”For 100,000 francs, the wildly prolific Simenon agreed to write an entire novel while suspended in a glass cage outside the Moulin Rouge nightclub for 72 hours.” [via HTMLGIANT] / On Hart Crane & the Brooklyn Bridge / “Perec is a great storyteller and a wry humorist. There is always a point in reading his work. But the sense that these narratives are going nowhere, or chasing themselves around into oblivion, is the aesthetic that lies behind almost everything he wrote.” [via Bookslut] / Is there anything Umberto Eco cannot do?
