Bookmarks (bad news edition): Fiction is in trouble, booksellers flee Paris, and the Bush library is under construction
Some book-related links:
- George Steiner says narrative fiction’s days are numbered (The Guardian)
- Parisian booksellers leave city for picturesque town – there’s a charming and quirky romantic comedy just waiting to be written here (Deutsche Welle)
- Work started on Bush Presidential Library, cheap jokes (The New York Times)
- Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck, dies at 60 (Slate)
- Father and son both pen memoirs about son’s meth addiction (Los Angeles Times)
- Is Abebooks a wolf in sheep’s clothing? (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
“now that anything can be said, fiction is in deep trouble”
without the original context, this remark of Steiner’s makes no sense. with context, who knows?
Steiner: mountain goat of the abyss. Scuffed ass and brain and twitchy with dread.