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Kafkaesque Hotels, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
August 27, 2013
On the Shelf
“Want to lose a friend who’s a writer? Ask her, a month in, how it’s going. Better still, ask her to describe what she’s working on.”
Mark Slouka explains the etiquette
.
The great affect/effect problem.
Libraries across Quebec are banding together
to help rebuild
the branch destroyed in the July Lac-Megantic oil-train derailment.
“The rise of the
belles-lettres
establishment, celebrating France’s literary culture, and even that of its neighbours, is the latest marketing sensation in the French capital, as hoteliers come up with ever more innovative—or desperate—ways to attract guests.”
These include
a Proust-themed hotel, a hostelry devoted to literary lovers, and a third containing an ominous-sounding Franz Kafka room.
The latest in
long-overdue library books
: an alumna returns a volume to her Michigan school library thirty-three years late, from Dubai.
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