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Decca-licious
March 15, 2007

                                                       

I can't resist posting this cover. I promise, everyone, that I will start posting soon about frontlist titles (it takes a while to organize the three-deep galleys... ). Who could resist that face? (The sketch is by Mitford's one-time fellow traveler and celebrated artist Pele de Lappe). Aristocrat and Communist, creator of a silly family language ("Boudledidge") and wielder of a wicked pen, Mitford was a lifelong study in contrasts who managed to reconcile her own conflicts while highlighting the hypcrisies she found in others'. Reading her letters (the first is from when she was about age five) is watching a writer develop.

Meanwhile, another dilemma in the reviewer's life: I have a stack of books to read that are out this month -- yet I just received the new Michael Chabon from HarperCollins. I'm reading as fast as I can...

Posted by Bethanne Patrick on March 15, 2007 | Comments (0)