LINKS

* Stephen Schenkenberg has created a website compiling William H. Gass's publications and interviews. Also have a look at Schenkenberg's essay on Gass's The Tunnel from The Quarterly Conversation.

* "As a playwright, I often find myself more than a little envious of the world of the visual arts. The contemporary theatre, certainly in Britain, is too embarrassed by accusations of elitism to take itself very seriously, to declare itself purely art."

* True hedonism here.

Spiegel: One can have a hot bath for pleasure too.

Keel: One can also take a book into the bathtub, which doubles the pleasure.

* The Booker finalists will soon be available free online

* "I know the story's effect on me: during one of my three readings, it brought me to the verge of tears; during another, I was struck by how charming and even funny it sometimes is. Each time I read it, the story took hold of my attention and imagination in a way few stories ever do"

* Actually, I wouldn't consider Alice Sebold's new novel literary fiction because she's a bad writer

* I love it! Soon the UK will know how OJ did it

Comments

[Matthew Tiffany]

Is Sebold a bad writer? She seems to make a lot of people irritable. I haven't read anything by her. She sounded reasonable on Fresh Air the other night...

[Scott]

I read about 1/4 of The Lovely Bones before I had to hit eject. And rarely do I hit eject so hard . . .