It’s only a couple short months before the release of Harper Lee’s new novel/sequel/draft/novel, Go Set A Watchman. As the literary world continues to chamber their thinkpiece guns, one thing remains… Read more »

Topics discussed: Tim Parks, length, reader feedback (write to us!), Michael Schaub, Ben Carson, thinkpieces, Hillary Kelly, The Way We Publish Now, serialization, cookie cutting (metaphorically), Jonathan Franzen, Harper Lee,… Read more »

James Franco has been trying for some time now to convince everyone that he’s a novelist of deep and meaningful works. Now in a new interview with Shelf Awareness, he’s… Read more »

If you’d had a spare $8,000-odd lying around over the last few days, you could now be the proud owner of Truman Capote’s typewriter. It’s just sold on ebay for $8,281,… Read more »

All the memorable phrases, the fact that everybody’s read him and practically knows his work by heart — who could be a better subject for Pictionary than Cormac McCarthy?

A few years back, Bob Harris at The New York Times presented the Seven Deadly Words of Book Reviewing, with “compelling” being one of the Serious Offenders of the Written Word, and Lake Superior State University… 1 / Read more »

On Tuesday I posted a poll to determine what readers thought about J.D. Salinger’s literary worth. In the post, I mentioned this YouTube video, which I described as “creepy.” Thursday… 14 / Read more »

In her 1965 essay “The Imagination of Disaster”, Susan Sontag discussed the meaning and power of the catastrophic imagery of science-fiction. The thesis of her argument has now become a… Read more »