Read through the comments yesterday, and while this is throwing the editorial calendar a little bit out of whack, it got so interesting I thought the conversation should continue. If you disagr...
http://www.ivy-style.com/flusser-part-two-a-reflection-on-style.html
Book reviews are so predictable. They start in one of two ways – either with the author’s take on the subject and then a segue into the book (if you want my take on the subject read WASPS b...
Philip Roth, who died in 2018 and is considered perhaps the greatest novelist of his generation for books such as “Portnoy’s Complaint,” is the subject of two new biographies. Not many of u...
George Plimpton certainly had pedigree. His father was “a successful corporate lawyer who became the American ambassador to the United Nations,” the New York Times noted in his obituary. “T...
http://www.ivy-style.com/literary-voice-the-george-plimpton-documentary.html
Shortly after my dark comedy storybook “These Are Our Failures” came out last January, The Rake showed me a fine writeup they did. Then the virus hit and it was never published, apparently, a...
Faithful reader “Old School” alerted us to this piece in the New York Review of Books by a former disciple of the great author. It discloses Cheever’s shoe size: Blue-and-white-striped Broo...
http://www.ivy-style.com/john-cheever-wore-size-six-weejuns.html
Dark academians who honor their forebears by donning tweed and flannel and digging through libraries and old bookstores throughout the bleak midwinter may have come across the following line: Onl...
Since you’re unlikely to be doing much this New Year’s Eve, consider curling up by the fire with cigar and a snifter and reading my storybook “The Disengage,” which is set on December 31,...