
Megan Abbott
"That notion of feeling imprisoned by circumstances or one’s own desires and drives is so fundamental to noir."

"That notion of feeling imprisoned by circumstances or one’s own desires and drives is so fundamental to noir."

"The bartender in Cuenca set the plate before us and we beheld a huge pig mask."

"The memory of colonialism in the Middle East has certainly not been erased."

"This is when it finally dawned on me that one couldn't write like Gogol or Stendhal or Proust in today's world."

"Readers are looking for books that will explore India's transformation and rise and not condescend."

"It's not about being the first, it's about conceptualizing."

"The brother of Ferran, Albert Adria is a chef in his own right."

A visual and spatial artist who combines poetry, painting, photography and technology.

"Fantasy nerd pretty much from day one."

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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More


"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More