Archives for September 12, 2007

• Aura Estrada on novels by César Aira and Roberto Bolaño. (via Three Percent.)
• Imaginary trip: Culzean Castle, where the pond holds eels and swans and the staff is neither “grumpy nor jobsworthy .”

I’ll be back tomorrow.

• The Paris Review interview with Henry Green (PDF for download).
• Phrase of the day: A “self-righteous Avril Sévigné .” (via Lit Saloon.)

“Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won’t last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.”
D.H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places