APS TOGETHER
Day 7
New Grub Street by George GissingChapter 7
November 12, 2023 by Yiyun Li
This may be one of my favorite chapters so far. We get publishing woes old and new, players in the publishing world from the past and from the future, converging in a chapter where there is also much domestic tension and tenderness. Mrs. Yule deserves a novella by herself.
“Even the average man of a certain age is an alarming creature when dinner delays itself; the literary man in such a moment goes beyond all parallel.”
I love how Gissing laughs at a subset of men including himself.
“Free exercise of a malicious flippancy”: there, that’s the description of much of social media, from long before its existence.
