Quote of the Day (Janet Malcolm, on Biographies)

“The narratives called biographies pale and shrink in the face of the disorderly actuality that is a life."—Czech-born American journalist Janet Malcolm (1934-2021), The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (1994)

The image accompanying this post of Janet Malcolm was taken Mar. 18, 2013, at the Kelly Writers House in the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.