Tuesday's Literary Briefing

Hot Off The Presses!

We stopped by Barnes & Noble, To Kill A Mockingbird was in the “New Fiction” section. Now, considering our locale (South Carolina), this provides an opening for many conventional Southern jokes. You have the illiteracy joke and the racism joke. Well, not all of us are illiterate and not all of us are racist. Anyway, older books and writing come back to us this Tuesday. The Preppy Handbook returns. Recently deceased, Frank Kermode had a love affair with poetry. More on poetry with an interview with Mark Strand. Camille Paglia wonders what the next big idea will be; postmodernism is dead?! And Isaac Asimov wonders what happened to the big ideas of the past. Enjoy your Twosdey –  Andrew Geer