In The Last Interview and Other Conversations, Jorge Luis Borges, the heavyweight of twentieth-century literature, uses a light touch that infuses every page of the book with his buoyant personality. (READ MORE)
Sheri Booker beautifully captures her years as a mortician’s right-hand woman in her new memoir Nine Years Under, taking readers behind-the-scenes, explaining in vivid prose what happens in a place people only visit when they don’t want to be there.(READ MORE)
Rebecca Solnit's The Faraway Nearby examines her mother's battle with Alzheimer's while journeying through memories of her own life journey, teaching readers the myriad ways in which a story can be told. In this Behind the Books, Rebecca tells us about her habits and interests, like the morning slide...(READ MORE)
The empty excesses of a Wall Street trader are laid out bare in The Buy Side, Turney Duff's account of the partying, the sex, the drugs and the wild abandon that has come to plague the Wall Street industry. Here we chat with Turney Duff about his book and his break from the world of high finance. (READ MORE)
Take a moment to consider this accomplishment: in 2011, Jennifer Pharr Davis set the overall speed record on the Appalachian Trail by hiking its entire length of 2,181 miles -- from Katahdin, Maine to Springer Mountain, Georgia -- in 46 days. As the first woman to hold the record, she covered an average...(READ MORE)
Biographile sat down with the author of The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden age of Hijacking to learn more about how he unraveled the many mysteries embedded throughout this complex tale of romance among the runways and radicals of the 1970s.(READ MORE)
The power of famous last words is all around us -- "Rosebud," "Here's Looking at You Kid." Dennis Johnson, co-founder of Melville House, has started a book series with just that idea in mind. Here we talk to Dennis about The Last Interview Series, in which the last official interviews of famous literary...(READ MORE)
In this installment of Behind the Books, Julie Kavanagh of The Girl Who Loved Camellias tells us about her inspirations behind her work, her love of Paris and ballet, her use of an Italian thriller as a language-learning tool, and a reminder that aspiring writers must learn from the writers they admire.(READ MORE)
William Clark Styron, Jr., the Pulitzer-winning author of books including Sophie's Choice and Lie Down in Darkness, was born in the Tidewater region of Virginia on this day in 1925. His daughter Alexandra Styron joins us in remembering him. Her 2011 memoir Reading My Father is an illuminating account...(READ MORE)
In this installment of Behind the Books we've asked David Margolick -- author of Dreadful -- about his life as a writer and reader: the musicality of Thomas Wolfe, how tenacious research is the unspoken asset of a great biographer, and the raw reality for aspiring writers: "If you want to be a writer,...(READ MORE)
