A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the
author reading: the Q&A. This week, Ben Marcus, author of The Flame Alphabet and an upcoming book of short stories, talks to Glenn Kurtz about literary innovation, and how Jane Austen may have already cracked the code.
Scrolling through the massive swaths of Pinterest inspiration, I was reminded of a classic literary figure who would have been all over Pinterest had it existed during her time: May Welland, wife of Newland Archer in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.
Read MoreRoger Ebert’s autobiography, Life Itself, champions two institutions that are rarely championed: the Catholic Church and the public university. He loses his faith in the former as a teen and it gives way to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which cemented in clearly detailed episodes Ebert’s picture of intellectuality, his public-mindedness, his humility and depth.
Read MoreA weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the
author reading: the Q&A. This week, Sapphire speaks with Taiye Selasi about her new book, Ghana Must Go, and why she needed to leave New York to finish writing it.
Recently a number of web series have used the format to revamp classic stories, tell new ones, and yell at Ophelia to stop what she’s doing before she gets her hair wet. Here are five literary web series worth a serious binge.
Read MoreDoes the future of e-reading mean the death of paperback books? It seems that everyone can agree that we like the smell of books, and reading them in the bathtub -- but what about pictures? What does the rise of e-publishing say about the future of graphic novels?
Read MoreWelcome to a new series in which we swoop into one
location’s dollar book bin and take out four paperback romance novels at random. These books run the gamut from innocent schoolgirl crushes to steamy romps behind the
horse stable, but they all share the same DNA. How do these books adhere to the genre’s clichés? How do they
buck them? We’ll run them through our romance novel survey to see how they measure up.
A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Tristan Taormino, adult film director and editor of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Pleasure, defines what makes her porn feminist.
Read MoreIn re-reading John Kennedy Toole's brilliant A Confederacy Of Dunces, I noticed that Ignatius J. Reilly's absurdly confident declarations would be right at home on a certain Internet hellhole.
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