From Thomas Mallon’s review of Martin Stannard’s biography of Muriel Spark, in the New Yorker of April 5: [later in life] She battled agents and accountants and editors with unusual fierceness. [note fierceness rather than ferocity] Edith Sitwell advised her to regard book businessmen witheringly, as if “through a pair of lorgnettes.” Spark eventually refused … Continue reading Short shot #41: Our imperious authors