May 30, 2014
Daniel Genis wrote an alternate history novel called Narcotica while incarcerated for 10 years for his own drug-related crimes. The “polite robber” is now a sober author.
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Daniel Genis wrote an alternate history novel called Narcotica while incarcerated for 10 years for his own drug-related crimes. The “polite robber” is now a sober author.
Read MoreRead an excerpt of an alternate history novel in which drugs are legal — and which was written while the author was incarcerated for his own drug-related crimes.
Read MoreWe look back on the five stories that best represent the nihilistic mythology of H. P. Lovecraft.
Read MoreAlthough he is undoubtedly the most famous fictional spy, James Bond is nowhere near the first agent of espionage in literature.
Read MoreThe Paris Review, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and government-sponsored kool-aid acid tests — American spooks are so cultured.
Read MoreCelebrate Moz’s birthday the way he would: sulking in a corner over a good book.
Read MoreCrime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov — basically everything by Dostoyevsky has been made into a movie more than once.
Read MoreThe Great Gatsby, Mrs. Dalloway, This is How You Lose Her — a movement on college campuses hopes to mark such works as possibly traumatic.
Read MoreBecause receiving Dr. Seuss’s Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is only encouraging another generation of man-babies.
Read MoreOn the road home, two cousins share an experience that pierces through the routine to reveal what's truly important.
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