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16 Books to Read This April
Sarah Gerard, Sunshine State (Harper Perennial) Sarah Gerard’s debut novel Binary Star was a haunting portrait of the physical and societal disconnection felt by its narrator; her chapbooks Things I...
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Ana Marie Cox on Our New National Nightmare
Ana Marie Cox is one of the leading political commentators of her generation—and one of the funniest. Since launching the blog Wonkette in 2004, she’s written a novel—Dog Days—set in the Beltway, and...
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Alexander McCall Smith: In Praise of W.H. Auden
Alexander McCall Smith, best known for the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, sees his latest book, My Italian Bulldozer, hit American shelves today. What was the first book you fell in love with?...
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Investigating the Brilliance of the Late João Gilberto Noll
When Brazilian novelist João Gilberto Noll died last week, at the age of 70, his reputation in the English-speaking world was really only beginning to blossom. The recent publication (and subsequent...
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Rarely Seen Literary Treasures from the Library of Congress Archives
In honor of National Library Week (April 9-15), we have curated a selection of rarely seen literary treasures from the Library of Congress Archives, from William Blake’s engraved prophecies to a first...
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Florida Man Talks to Florida Woman About Florida Crime
So it’s now a running joke that a weird or unsavory news story about a random crime is apt to be headlined, “Florida Man…” We asked a couple of crime fiction writers well versed in those stories and in...
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Read a Previously Unpublished Story By Leonora Carrington
“Mr. Gregory’s Fly” Once there was a man with a big black moustache. His name was Mr. Gregory (the man and the moustache had the same name). Since his youth Mr. Gregory was bothered by a fly that used...
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On Writing What You Know, Playing with Language, and Teaching DeLillo
To see Joseph Salvatore and Scott Cheshire as great writers is to see them correctly; to see them as Don DeLillo obsessors is to see them a little too correctly. At the end of April, these two will be...
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When We Lay Ourselves Bare: Robin Wasserman and Charles Bock in Conversation
Robin Wasserman: Good morning, Charles! I wish I could say that I hope your day is less grey and rainy than mine, but since you live about three blocks away, such hope seems misplaced. We’re fast...
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Squid Eggs, Traffic, Trees, and More: Object Lessons for Earth Day
Squid Eggs and Global Warming The following is adapted from Nicole Walker’s Egg, now available from Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series. If you were just watching male squid in the ocean tentacling...
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Lisa Unger is Ready to Try Middlemarch One More Time
Lisa Unger’s latest, The Red Hunter, is out now from Touchstone. What was the first book you fell in love with? I’ve been a voracious reader since early childhood—so it’s hard to pinpoint the moment...
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Ask the Publicists: What’s the One Thing I Can Do For My Book?
Dear Publicist, What is the one piece of advice you can give me before my book is published? Dear Author, Gone are the days when you could turn in your manuscript, put your feet up on the desk, and...
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5 Questions for Granta’s Best Young American Novelists
Every ten years Granta Magazine publishes a special issue titled Best of Young American Novelists, a collection of new fiction by the best young American writers under the age of 40. The last issue was...
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John Sandford: The Only Way to Read Proust is in a Hammock
John Sandford is the author of the Prey series, the latest of which is Golden Prey, available now from G.P. Putnam’s Sons. What was the first book you fell in love with? The first book I fell in love...
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Calling a Lie a Lie: On the First 100 Days of Donald Trump’s Presidency
The following is from the PEN America report on free expression in the first 100 days of the Trump administration. A unique challenge posed to free expression by President Trump is his propensity to...
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Dear New York Times: Climate Denial Has No Place in the Paper of Record
To the Editors: We note with disappointment and shock the New York Times‘ decision to hire Bret Stephens as an op-ed columnist. In columns for the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Stephens has baselessly...
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On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich
Russian Literature Week 2017 will take place starting today through May 6th at literary venues across New York City including Book Culture, the Strand Bookstore, New York University, Columbia...
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15 Books to Read This May
Kristen Bakis, Lives of the Monster Dogs For years, Kristen Bakis’s Lives of the Monster Dogs has occupied space in my brain. First, there’s that title–hard to shake even before I’d read the novel....
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Maaza Mengiste, Carrie Brownstein, and Jill Filipovic on Gender and Power
This week, the 13th annual Pen World Voices Festival is taking place in New York City. This year, the Festival will focus on the relationship between gender and power. Participants include Chimamanda...
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Dani Shapiro on First Books, Found Lists, Marriage, and More
In this episode, Paul Holdengraber talks to Dani Shapiro about the grueling nature of book tours, the difficult task of writing while reading, the “unthought known,” and… marriage. Shapiro’s latest is...
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