Also:

http://librisvedese.blogspot.com/

A SINGULAR WOMAN

You should read this great interview with Anita Brookner. Excerpt:

Imagine, I say, that you have been invited to a party. Do you walk to the centre of the room, and command the party to come to you?

'Never! I lurk.'

Around the margins...

'Yes.'

And do you initiate conversations?

'No. I listen a lot. And finally escape.' She pauses. 'With a feeling of deliverance.'

I'm into pictures at the moment.

Feast your eyes on the lovely Margaret Drabble:

THE COLLECTOR

John Fowles, love the you!