Soup and Salad: James Joyce Illuminates Karl Ove Knausgaard, Matthew Norman on Every Writer’s Worst Nightmare, What’s in a Publisher’s Name?, RIP Lois Duncan and Jack Fuller

On today’s menu:

1.  “I longed to get away. What I wanted was to write, and I resolved to read this marvelous work and be illuminated by all its radiance.” In his introduction to the new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , Karl Ove Knausgaard ( My Struggle ) writes about how the Irish writer’s masterpiece shone a light on his life and career:

Even now, 27 years after I first read the book, its moods come back to me. The rain-drenched sch...