LARB PRESENTS AN EXCERPT from Peter B. Kaufman’s The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge, out today from Seven Stories Press. ¤ In Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal’s comic allegory about the life of the printed word in Czechoslovakia, the wise fool Hanta — Hrabal’s hero — works... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-23 16:00:42 UTC ]
Of Bohumil Hrabal’s six great loves, guess how many were cats? (Hint: almost all of them.) | Lit Hub Memoir The car culture that’s helping destroy the planet was by no means inevitable: on the relentless campaign to force Americans to accept the automobile. | Lit Hub History Here are the 78 best... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-30 12:30:39 UTC ]
This week: why we're wrong about nearly everything, plus Bohumil Hrabal's meditations on living with cats. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]