Janet Malcolm at a Chelsea reading

BandofThebes.com has put up this excellent picture of Yale Press author Janet Malcolm at a reading for her book Two Lives in Chelsea on Wednesday night.

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Stephen Bottum, the blogger behind BandofThebes.com, likes Two Lives for the “many fascinating revelations in the slim book, which manages to say something new and important about the nature of biography, the quirks of writing, the work of reading, the unknowability of human actions, the ways in which biographers ‘use’ their minor characters, and how a scholar’s overwhelming fear of not living up to early promise can ultimately prevent him from completing any work.” He called the book “always engaging.”

You can read his entire blog post here.

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