John Cheever once said, "I want to write short stories like I want to f*** a chicken." Soon after that utterance, his career took off and he's now acknowledged as a master of the short story.That's just one of the pithy revelations from Blake Bailey's new book Cheever: A Life. For more, check out this … Continue reading Too Good to Factcheck
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I Never Tire of the Phrase
The man arrested last fall for attempting to sell Adolph Hitler's golden bookmark (details here) has plead guilty. The bookmark was stolen from a Spanish auction house in 2002.Details are here.--David E
"Hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love."
We know comparatively little about William Shakespeare--least of all what he looked like. But we may now be one step closer to finding out. Art historians have agreed that a painting recently uncovered in the UK is a almost certainly a likeness of the bard, painted during his lifetime.Details are here.--David E
Musings from Magers and Quinn 