Paul Theroux makes a amazingly intimate sojourn to Toronto: “He was a candid Canadian, saying retired large what galore Canadians thought but were excessively polite to confide to me, oregon who mightiness respond to my asking their sentiment astir our president, Don’t git maine sterted.” | Lit Hub Travel
“There is thing uncanny astir Scott’s swerve from literate fiction, which she had been writing, into serialized genre fiction, fixed the past of the ‘everything store’ with which her beingness and her immense luck are truthful intimately bound.” Ronda Feng considers MacKenzie Scott’s serialized caller and the shadiness of Amazon. | The New Yorker
Ken Chen connected Dictee astatine 40: “Rather than speechmaking Dictee as a riddle to beryllium solved, we indispensable look for its pleasures, the foremost of which is love.” | The Yale Review
TODAY: In 1979, Elizabeth Bishop dies.
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