Fortnightly 169
The penultimate edition of this academic year. Turn Every Page is a hugely enjoyable documentary about the great biographer Robert Caro - still working on his astonishing multi-volume LBJ work after four decades - and his editor, the late Robert Gottlieb. More American literature: the delicate envelope-writings of Emily Dickinson. Plus Vermeer visits Dublin, Joel J. Miller on the decline of reading in college students, Andrew Atherton’s new book on teaching English, the Venetian ghetto, Matt Dickinson on his English teacher, Bennie Kara on the battle of body hair and Alan Jacobs on building an ‘attention cottage.’
This time the audio recording is of Emily Dickinson’s ‘A narrow Fellow in the Grass’.