The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
stunning essay on the ethics and impossibilities of biography
Tag: literary biography
The Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D. T. Max
David Foster Wallace was a prick.
Everybody Behaves Badly by Lesley M. M. Blume
Can I love Hemingway’s writing but hate Hemingway?
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
on the beach from fat man on a beach
Visiting the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
The Trip to Echo Spring by Olivia Laing
I’m an abyss filling up with regret and alcohol at equal measure, like a really wet martini.
Dotter of her Father’s Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot
There’s something both lower-case romantic and sweetly anachronistic about a husband-wife literary collaboration. What makes this one, Dotter of herContinue Reading
Malcolm Lowry: Psalms and Songs (edited by Margerie Lowry
Psalms and Songs is an odd book, a collection of short stories by Malcolm Lowry (some previously published, others unfinished),Continue Reading
Pursued by Furies: A Life of Malcolm Lowry by George Bowker
I took a week to read this harrowing, depressing, heart-wrenchingly awful* biography of one of the most troubled, confused andContinue Reading
