The problem of the time of writing
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Dear readers! I’ve been really delinquent with My Life and Thoughts. You must all have thought I was either dead, or not thinking anything. In fact, I’m writing a book! The working title is The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them and it’s coming out as an FSG “paperback original,” so my thrifty readers don’t have to wait for the hardcovers to get remaindered! And, I mean, which among us is in this game for the money, right?
When I mentioned the subject of advances to my fellow blogger Grisha Freidin, he kindly shared with me the following anecdote, from the forthcoming Norton Critical Edition of Isaac Babel’s Selected Writings (ed. Gregory Freidin):
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