From The American Scholar, living on $500,000 a year: What F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tax returns reveal about his life and times. Stefan Collini reviews The Letters of TS Eliot: vol 2 1923-1925. The objects of the exercise: Which came first — Orhan Pamuk’s museum or his new novel, The Museum of Innocence? (and more at NYRB) 8 writers who lived large after death: As a career strategy, early, penniless death has at least one significant downside — but it has worked for some. Edward Albee has been a force for the stage for around half a century — but while his plays endure, the man himself is a bit dated. Do women write "female" poetry? Here's the introduction by Salman Rushdie to The Paris Review Interviews, edited by Philip Gourevitch. How to write a great novel: From writing in the bathroom (Junot Diaz) to dressing in character (Nicholson Baker), 11 top authors share their methods for getting the story on the page (and from Bookforum, Craig Seligman on first novels, and recollections by John Banville, Rebecca Goldstein and more). From The Weekly Standard, a review essay on Samuel Johnson (and more). A review of American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps. Celebrating the memoir: Fiction's day is done? Little Women, Big Sacrifices: An article on Louisa May Alcott's life of concession and depression. A review of Neverland: J. M. Barrie, the Du Mauriers, and the Dark Side of Peter Pan by Piers Dudgeon. From TLS, a review of Paul Aster's Invisible; and is the new Oxford Companion to English Literature better or worse than its predecessors?
