Tuesday’s report takes a peek at the harrowing sides of the literary world. Conflict abounds. The business of writing battles against the technology grain. Vandals sack Rome again. Are workshops necessary? And if Harold Bloom ends up dead in a grisly gangster murder, look to Martina Cole. Yet, if William Faulkner refused to accept the decline of man, then we can end on a good note in the “in case you missed it” department: we still read.
