Discoveries: Denis Johnson, Andrei Makine, & Sue Coe
On 'Train Dreams,' 'The Life of an Unknown Man,' and 'Cruel'
On 'Train Dreams,' 'The Life of an Unknown Man,' and 'Cruel'
On 'Farther Away,' 'Wonderful Investigations,' and 'Paris, I love you'...
THIS IS A BOOK about reading. It offers the kinds of insights into the act that most of us never stop to indulge in, and for that we are eternally...
OF COURSE THE TITLE is irresistible. In a sea of books about the glories of Paris, and why can’t America be more like Paris and oooh the food...
THERE'S SO MUCH RAW pain in these gorgeous essays that one understands why many writers rarely leave the house, much less travel to Robinson...
On 'Magic Hours,' 'Miss Fuller,' 'The Dangerous Book Four Boys,' 'The Fault of Our Stars,' and 'The Guardians.'
nbsp; "Magic Hour: The brief periods of dawn and dusk that allow enough time for shooting, but also create some striking effects on film." &ndash...
THIS IS THE BEST KIND of historical fiction — the kind that dives right in. With very little explanation or introduction, the reader finds herself in...
IT IS NOT HARD TO FEEL motherly toward James Franco (thirty years ago I might have sung a different tune). He works so hard, as if chased by demons...
IF ONLY I COULD STOP crying long enough to write about this damn book. (Since John Green is a "YA," or Young Adult novelist, I am getting an enormous...
WHAT CAN A WRITER DO? In 2008, Sarah Manguso's friend Harris jumped in front of a train pulling in to a station. In 2006, he had escaped from a...
With her first few brushstrokes, Jones sets these lives in motion, towards each other