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I'm reading Buddenbrooks. It’s a very dry kind of funny, and it occurred to me the other day that maybe even the title is funny. It's a little odd in E…
Caleb Crain
Dec 14, 2019
I’m afraid this issue of my newsletter will contain only news, rather boringly about me. This is what comes of having a book published. There’s still t…
Caleb Crain
Sep 4, 2019
“All do not all things well,” sang Thomas Campion, and one thing that I don’t do well is the last few weeks before publication. My husband and I were t…
Caleb Crain
Aug 12, 2019
In his forthcoming memoir And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? (August, FSG), Lawrence Weschler quotes a psychoanalyst who remembers an occasion when his friend…
Caleb Crain
Jun 7, 2019
“We are like trapped flies with our feet not in honey but in venom.” —Eudora Welty, “Must the Novelist Crusade?” Why are you so married to realism? my …
Caleb Crain
May 13, 2019
You aren’t supposed to comment on the dust jackets you post in the #sevendaybookcoverchallenge, and you’re supposed to string it out for seven days, an…
Caleb Crain
Apr 14, 2019
This morning, while walking the dog, I looked down to see two earthworms, whom the dog and I had startled, suddenly abandoning their copulation—like tw…
Caleb Crain
Apr 9, 2019
Once, when I was little, my family went on a drive-through safari, the kind where humans stay safely in a car while lions and giraffes roam freely. I r…
Caleb Crain
Mar 28, 2019
A few days ago a friend sent me a link to “Sea Scrivener,” a 1944 comic-book biography of Herman Melville: A little Billy Budd seems to have gotten mix…
Caleb Crain
Mar 17, 2019
I seem to be writing a newsletter. No idea what I’m doing here. Until yesterday, when they melted, there were these enormous shunting-togethers of disc…
Caleb Crain
Mar 12, 2019
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