The good people at New Directions were kind enough to send me a copy of Colombian author Evelio Rosero’s novel, Good Offices, a satire of the Catholic Church in Latin America with a hunchback for a hero. I am intrigued. Anne McClean translates. Review forthcoming.
More from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Notebooks. Apparently young Scottie was into Hume against Lock [sic]—
Notes of Childhood:
Make a noise like a hoop and roll away
She’s neat ha ha
Grandfather’s whiskers
Aha, she laughed
Annex rough house
Hume against Lock
Changing Voice
Snow
Hot dogs
Hair oily and pumps from notes
Miss Sweet’s school
Folwell Paulson
Each Bath
Writing in class
Debates
It’s one thing to call a man
Story of dirty shirt
Trick show lemonade stand
Biblioklept 