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Etgar Keret on Israel & Why Fiction Writers Should Discuss Politics
Etgar Keret on Israel & Why Fiction Writers Should Discuss Politics
By Freddie Moore
July 28, 2014

Keret’s new op-ed in The New Yorker resounds a very necessary call for writers to speak their minds.

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Speak, Memory: When Novelists Turn to Memoir
Speak, Memory: When Novelists Turn to Memoir
By Freddie Moore
July 25, 2014

If Nabokov’s memoir catalyzed Lolita, who knows what memoir writing can do for Gary Shteyngart and Tom Robbins.

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Gonzo Today: What Hunter S. Thompson Means to Modern Journalism
Gonzo Today: What Hunter S. Thompson Means to Modern Journalism
By Nicholas Laskin
July 18, 2014

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”

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The Real Life Inspirations Behind Moby-Dick
The Real Life Inspirations Behind Moby-Dick
By George Dobbs
July 01, 2014

Whale attacks, cannibalism and tyrannical captains — this wasn’t Herman Melville’s fiction.

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