“I have few words in my pen,” claims Jean Cocteau, but the recent reissue of his memoir The Difficulty of Being proves otherwise. Elliptical and free-flowing, it’s a biography not of the external facts of Cocteau’s life, but the architecture of his thought. Almost anything is fair game. Reading...(READ MORE)
Writing spaces are the unspoken lovers of writers. They tug at their hearts, they tease them, they inspire and reinspire until writing is complete. Here we showcase a few places and spaces that have acted as shrines for the literary mind.(READ MORE)
Cheryl Tan joins us to talk about discovering her Chinese-Singaporean roots through writing her memoir A Tiger in the Kitchen. (READ MORE)
George Plimpton -- figurehead of The Paris Review -- somehow made the editor's role seem like the most glamorous, dashing, and downright dangerous occupation a person could hold. For a closer look at George, check these books out.(READ MORE)
Dan Savage's latest -- American Savage -- is as forthright and searing as the title suggests. Savage is our most eloquent tour guide through this country’s ills and potentials, and so his teachings deserve a deeper look. Here we've collected some of his best stops through the years.(READ MORE)
The Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic is the story of Gallagher’s travels through what she calls Oz, the land of the sick, the life that happens after she loses confidence in her health. Or, to put it more precisely, her life after the day her eye doctor said, “Darn.” One day at a routine eye...(READ MORE)
The cover of the new English translation of In the Kitchen with Alain Passard by writer-illustrator Christophe Blain depicts the master chef's activity in the kitchen of L’Arpège, his three Michelin-starred Parisian restaurant, and on his three organic farms across different regions of France. In those...(READ MORE)
Memorial Day Weekend means beach time, which also means guiltily remembering that long forgotten New Year's resolution. But it's not too late! These five books show how profoundly a deep commitment to fitness can change a body -- both inside and out.(READ MORE)
Seventy-two years ago today in Duluth, Minnesota, the songwriter, performer, and cultural luminary known as Bob Dylan came into the world as Robert Zimmerman. "I was born in the spring of 1941. The Second World War was already raging in Europe, and America would soon be in it," he writes in the 2004 book...(READ MORE)
While we count down to new episodes of Arrested Development on Netflix beginning on May 26, here’s a look at what’s been on the Bluths’ reading lists over the show’s epic hiatus.(READ MORE)
