April 2008

The National Gallery of Victoria has now officially admitted that their Van Gogh is not, in fact, a Van Gogh. It’s apparently accomplished enough, however, to have at least this one Guardian UK writer questioning whether it’s a Rubens character study.

100 Best First Lines from Novels. A ton of great stuff here, including Thomas Pynchon at #3!

Frank Lloyd Wright interviewed by Mike Wallace in 1957.

A Financial Times writer says that Salman Rushdie’s novel is good, so good in fact, that he may have to try it with curry.

Quoted: For Rushdie, as for the artists he writes about, the pen is a magician’s wand. There is more magic than realism in this latest novel. But it is, I think, one of his best. If The Enchantress of Florence doesn’t win this year’s Man Booker I’ll curry my proof copy and eat it.