Unlikely Aphrodisiacs,Watch Lamas Online and Other News
By Sadie Stein
On the Shelf
“The girls adored him and crowded out the benches, lying on the boards at his feet as there was no room to sit. He got them excited and, it was said, your best chance of seducing one was the afternoon of a Lewis lecture on medieval romance, the subject of his most famous academic work, The Allegory of Love.” C. S. Lewis, unlikely wingman.
Nude tree-climbing and fruit flies: peculiar practices of great writers.
George R. R. Martin unleashes his wrath on the New York Jets.
Don DeLillo has won the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.