Megan Abbott
"That notion of feeling imprisoned by circumstances or one’s own desires and drives is so fundamental to noir."
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Lisa Abend
"The bartender in Cuenca set the plate before us and we beheld a huge pig mask."
Ibrahim N. Abusharif
"The memory of colonialism in the Middle East has certainly not been erased."
André Aciman
"This is when it finally dawned on me that one couldn't write like Gogol or Stendhal or Proust in today's world."
Aravind Adiga
"Readers are looking for books that will explore India's transformation and rise and not condescend."
Ferran Adria
"It's not about being the first, it's about conceptualizing."
Albert Adria
"The brother of Ferran, Albert Adria is a chef in his own right."
Aeschylus
“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
A visual and spatial artist who combines poetry, painting, photography and technology.
Saladin Ahmed
"Fantasy nerd pretty much from day one."
Nelson Algren
"Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."
Dante Alighieri
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
Genres
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More