Posting will remain light, with a possible chance of lengthy ramblings during the day job. Because of very pleasant recent events, temperament will remain sanguine, likely to settle into a calm that may disappoint readers looking for aggro tirades and felicitous flayings.
Month / May 2004
Denueve — Apparently, No William Styron
Catharine Denueve’s diaries, A l’ombre de moi-mꭥ, were published in France last week, creating something of an uproar. Liz Hoggard doesn’t think it’s a big deal, pointing out, along with other critics, that the book is a collection of “food, the weather, wigs and costumes but disappointingly little on psychology.”
Yesterday’s Definition of Libel is Today’s “Duel of Stories”
Laura Miller: “The ”Opening Skinner’s Box’ controversy looks like a quarrel about facts, but it’s really a duel of stories. Slater’s subjects are saying, in part, ‘How dare you presume to tell the story of us? Now we’re going to tell the story of you!”’
For more on the subject, check out Ron’s Lauren Slater archives, which include comments from Slater herself.