Category: Literary

  • Advice For The Troubled

    “It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice for everyone except Parisians.”  -Muriel Spark

  • Colm Toibin At Work

    Love this photo of the Irish Novelist Colm Toibin at work. This is indeed the desk of a working writer.

  • Muriel Spark’s “A Far Cry From Kensington”

      A New Directions edition. Had the good fortune of finding the novel A Far Cry From Kensington by the British novelist Muriel Spark this past weekend. I have had Memento Mori on my shelf for some time, but have not gotten around to reading it. This New Directions edition was just $1 at Book-Off, which is…

  • New Documentary on Walker Percy

    It’s excellent news to learn that novelist Walker Percy may be getting more attention with the upcoming documentary Walker Percy: A Documentary Film. A man of the South and a Roman Catholic, his books tackle the big moral and spiritual questions that modern novelists, regrettably, have long since abandoned. It’s interesting how often his novel The Moviegoer,…