Flattening the Curb
Eric Deguire explores how a television program can be a perfect match for these sad and strange times.
In its ongoing interest in everything that books are about, or, to put it differently, on the literary as it intersects with just about everything, Salon .ll. rescues a remarkable set of photographs of Canadian Pacific executives from obscurity and asks its loyal readers: Can these photos help illuminate our literary discussions?
Patience may be needed, for these photos may take a few seconds to come into focus.
Eric Deguire explores how a television program can be a perfect match for these sad and strange times.
When it comes to plagues and pestilence, the writers mentioned most often nowadays are Boccaccio, Defoe, Camus, and Garcia Marquez. But it’s Waiting for Godot and a 1986 story by Susan Sontag that come to Linda Leith’s mind.