Monday, May 17, 2010

Grave jumping ...

... Unauthorized biographer gets a Guggenheim to proceed. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Amazing how much of an inherited aristocracy the literary world has become. Adam Begley is the son of Louis Begley. Then there's Martin Amis, of course. I could go on. The Victorians' progeny do not in general seem to have taken up their writing parents' trade. Something to think about.

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