Last night I reread Helen DeWitt's The Last Samurai (I want to write a few sentences about it for the little book on style, which now exists in draft but with the hard parts not written yet!). What a book!
I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
In complete and jaw-dropped agreement!
ReplyDeleteYep, it's a doozy.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I've read it three times and love it.
ReplyDeleteI've got a copy (finally!) on its way to me from Powells.
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