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A Day in the Life of a Russian Author’s Wife

October 23, 2014

Vera Nabokova, Sophia Tolstaya, Anna Dostoyevskaya and Natalia Solzhenitsyna — suffering and child-rearing, while acting as wife and secretary to genius.

Party Monsters and Book Wyrms: An Interview with Michael Alig

By Daniel Genis

September 10, 2014

Talking books with the King of the Club Kids.

Dostoyevsky and the Silver Screen: The Best Film Adaptations of His Work

By Genna Rivieccio

May 22, 2014

Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov — basically everything by Dostoyevsky has been made into a movie more than once.

10 Successful Writers Who Had Disabilities

By Michelle King

March 03, 2014

We honor Helen Keller meeting her teacher Anne Sullivan 127 years ago today by sharing the stories of 10 incredible writers with disabilities.

8 Writers Who Almost Died Before Their Time & The Impact It Had on Their Work

By Nelson Peters

November 01, 2013

A few inches this way or that and we never would have had Crime and Punishment, Animal Farm, Waiting for Godot or the other literary works produced by these eight authors.

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