Matthew Honan holds A.J. Jacobs responsible for the rise of “stunt books” — “like when you read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica and wrote about it in your best-selling book The… Read more »

Ray Bradbury, reigning King of Sci-fi, was transported via fiber optics from his home in Los Angeles to New York City yesterday. According to this post on the Wall Street… Read more »

Many of you fine readers get harassed by me daily — whether its through email or the occasional snail-mail galley letter. Either way, that’s a lot of reading to do… 2 / Read more »

One of our favorite journals is featuring one of our favorite authors: T Cooper, author of the newly released Beaufort Diaries (Melville House) is featured here in the most recent… Read more »

“A good epigraph should be more than mere adornment.” says Toby Lichtig in a commentary for the Guardian. “Better to think of it as a lens — or a sucker… Read more »

Writers have always battled distraction, but there seem to be more distractions closer at hand than there used to be. At least, that seems to be one of the things… Read more »

Identity Theory’s Robert Birnbaum’s latest interview is with Sarah Vowell. They talk about the complicated process of writing her newest book, Assassination Vacation, about the craft . . . and… Read more »

In a Morning News interview, Robert Birnbaum talks to Ian McEwan: “How do you now answer the question, ‘What do you do?’ I would say I was a literary dialogist,… Read more »

“Fifty is the perfect age to write a novel, a study of the best-selling authors of the past 50 years has shown,” reports a BBC News wire story. The survey… Read more »

Novelists Grant Bailie, Ranbir Sidhu, and Laurie Stone are now confined to huts inside the Flux Factory, an artists’ collective in Queens, New York. According to a New York Times… Read more »