- Beverly Cleary at 91.
- And another great: Judy Blume at the Telegraph. (Check out the photo; she is the Tina Turner of YA.)
- Forgotten novelist Theodora Keogh. (Via Maud.)
- A piece on cinematographer (and Ingmar Bergman collaborator) Gunnar Fischer.
- Why books take so long to come out.
- Charles Simic gets the Solomon treatment; baiting him on the burglary at Robert Frost’s house: Yes, the kids are accused of burning his furniture for heat and leaving puddles of vomit on the living-room floor. Do you see that as any kind of symbol of where American culture is now? No. In Frost’s day, too, awful things went on in the countryside. There were nasty things happening in remote villages. There’s that poem where there is the skeleton of the ex-lover of the mistress of the house in the attic.