#literary-reputation
#literary-reputation

[ follow ]

Books

"Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?

Infinite Jest's enormous physical and reputational scale transformed a complex novel about addiction, humility, and patience into a cultural punch line and social shibboleth.

fromIndependent

3 months ago

'Jilly Cooper's manners were impeccable. Every time I wrote anything about her over the years, a handwritten card arrived days later, thanking me warmly'

The 'bonkbuster' queen Jilly Cooper was a cultured author whose modesty and humour lit up her novels

Books

fromSlate Magazine

4 months ago

She Was One of Literature's Most Misunderstood Writers. A New Book Corrects the Record.

Daphne du Maurier wrote 17 novels, a few plays, and numerous short stories, but she's known chiefly for the narrative of the unnamed second Mrs. de Winter, a woman so overshadowed by her husband's late first wife that her own story is titled after her predecessor. True, some are aware that two of du Maurier's short stories, "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now," were adapted as great films by Alfred Hitchcock and Nicolas Roeg, respectively.

Books

[ Load more ]

#literary-reputation#literary-reputation

"Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?

'Jilly Cooper's manners were impeccable. Every time I wrote anything about her over the years, a handwritten card arrived days later, thanking me warmly'

She Was One of Literature's Most Misunderstood Writers. A New Book Corrects the Record.

#literary-reputation
#literary-reputation