Marbury: dept. of literary insults

« obama's latest compromise | Main | london's burning »

December 09, 2010

dept. of literary insults

Truman Capote on William Faulkner:

“He was a great friend of mine. Well, as much as you could be a friend of his, unless you were a fourteen-year-old nymphet.”

More here.

Posted at 11:11 AM | Permalink

Comments

You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

The comments to this entry are closed.

About

brain food

marginal revolution
the brilliant Tyler Cowen.
language log
words, beautiful words
letters of note
epistolary treats
the browser
the best curator of intelligent content on the web

american politics

politico
quickest and splashiest with the news
andrew sullivan
highly idiosyncratic, never boring
fivethirtyeight
Evidence-based punditry.

british politics

hopi sen
sage musings from the left
coffee house
the liveliest right-wing blog
john rentoul
a truly independent commentator

diversions

Why Miss Jones
the curious world of Miss Jones
McSweeney's
word play

my other places

second brain
brands and media and stuff (the day job)
the monkey speaks
a commonplace blog
comment is free
my pieces for The Guardian
twitter me

Archives

ads