Jeffrey Eugenides had a book party at The Standard Wednesday night: “I am seldom stirred anymore by the sight of the Manhattan skyline,” said Franzen. “Tonight I was spontaneously stirred.” [Bloomberg]
And Martin Amis was there! [NY Post]
Will Self writes about living with a rare blood disease. [Guardian]
A fan of Dorothy Parker’s tries to save her childhood home from the wrecking ball. [NY Times]
What Vanessa Grigoriadis reads. [Atlantic]
There are four new translations of The Iliad. [Economist]
Knopf book designer Chip Kidd is writing a Batman graphic novel? [Amazon]
The shortlist for the T.S. Eliot poetry prize has been announced. [New Statesman]
Laura Tisdel, a new editor at Regan Arthur Books (she replaces Andrea Walker, who joined Penguin Press earlier this year), has her first blog post up.
And Ellie Robins, a new editor at Melville House, has one up too. Are there still great national literatures in English? [Moby Lives]
