Nickel and Dimed author Barbara Ehrenreich joins us to discuss her unlikely new book Living With a Wild God, on her search for higher meaning in a world polarized by science and faith.(READ MORE)
We caught up with Steven Levingston, author of Little Demon in the City of Light, to learn about the mystery murder in late 19th century France, when hypnotism and chauvinism crowded the court rooms. (READ MORE)
Biographile caught up with Matthew Goodman, the author of Eighty Days, to find out more about Goodman's behind-the-scenes account of Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Bisland, and their epic race around the world.(READ MORE)
In The Bohemians, Ben Tarnoff sketches booming San Francisco in fresh, vivid strokes, recounting Mark Twain and his literary companions in their efforts to raise the profile and the quality of western literature.(READ MORE)
Clifford Chase’s new memoir, The Tooth Fairy, is a collection of fragments that adds up to more than the sum of its parts -- and is unexpectedly moving.(READ MORE)
'Fiction offers freedom from time and form (you create your own) as well as the exciting chance to create a unique voice with which to tell the story.' (READ MORE)
Some of us cope with extreme cold weather by dreaming of tropical island escapes -- but if that’s impossible, why not take comfort in stories of even worse weather?(READ MORE)
January 21 marks the anniversary of the death, in 1950, of George Orwell, whose deeply humane and politically astute writings become more relevant every year. (READ MORE)
For avowed bookworms, the next best thing to a shiny new paperback is a lively conversation with a fellow reader about books. The next best thing to that conversation? The roundup of reading memoirs we've collected here.(READ MORE)
Biographile caught up with Shteyngart as he prepared for the launch of his first memoir, Little Failure, to talk therapy, Russia, the uses of humor, the magic of language, and more.(READ MORE)
