Literature

The books are the first thing you notice when you walk into the apartment of a serious reader, even before […]

Somewhere in the middle of a quiet scene in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad, a sentence appears

There is a specific type of cruelty that takes place at a desk. When a writer sits down, opens a

There are books that no algorithm will ever turn up somewhere in a used bookstore, the kind with a handwritten

There’s a scene in a book where a character picks up a coffee cup and the author tells you it’s

There is a moment that occurs in libraries that very few people discuss. You enter with one goal in mind,

Somewhere right now, a pile of unfinished novels—possibly yours or a friend’s—is resting on a nightstand. The spines are slightly

A certain type of author biography practically writes itself. the alcohol consumption. the unsuccessful unions. The neighbors still recall the