Apr 4, 2022
James Wood is a
literary critic, essayist and novelist.
He was The Guardian's chief
literary critic between 1992 and 1995, and a senior editor at
The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. Since
roughly that time he's taught the Practice of Literary
Criticism at Harvard University and has been a staff writer and
book...
Dec 17, 2021
Daniel Mendelsohn "is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator. Born in New York City in 1960, he received degrees in Classics from the University of Virginia and Princeton. After completing his Ph.D. he moved to New York City, where he began freelance writing full time; since 1991 he has...
Aug 16, 2019
Born in Buenos Aires in 1948,
Alberto Manguel
grew up in Tel-Aviv, where his father served as the first
Argentinian ambassador to Israel. At sixteen, while working at the
Pygmalion bookshop in Buenos Aires, he was asked by the blind Jorge
Luis Borges to read aloud to him at his home. Manguel left
Argentina for Europe...
Mar 19, 2018
I met with Professor Nick Mount at his University of Toronto offices in "Toronto" to discuss his book Arrival, The Story of CanLit.
We talk among other things about the pronunciation of Toronto, the non-Toronto-centricity of his book, Alistair MacLeod, the CanLit boom, early Canadian writers publishing first in the...