Life is weather. Life is meals. Lunches on a blue checked cloth on which salt has spilled. The smell of tobacco. Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives.
from LIGHT YEARS by James Salter (via readandbreathe)
James’ first work of fiction in seven years, All That Is, is due this April from Knopf.
Stella Adler on America’s Master Playwrights, available now.
The opening lines from John Banville’s forthcoming novel, Ancient Light.
Verlyn Klinkenborg’s book of writing advice, Several Short Sentences About Writing, goes on sale in August.
Read this Sunday’s NYTIMES piece on Amis becoming Brooklyn’s leading literary man.
Lionel Asbo, Martin Amis’s highly-anticipated novel, is on-sale this August.