
“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"



On the American country music legend
April 27th, 2013
The silent war.
June 13th, 2013
Ray Bradbury up close and personal.
June 14th, 2012

"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
February 7th, 2013

on Andrey Kurkov’s oddball Russian crime fiction.
February 11th, 2012
For Hannah, talking is a way of coming to terms with, and owning, her appetites.
April 28th, 2012
On Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard
May 24th, 2013
Many have been sleeping in money. The money is congregating in the street.
October 21st, 2011

On Mailer, Eggers, and the protagonists that walk off the page.
December 7th, 2012

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

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

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More

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

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