We catch up with Chad Harbach, co-founder of n+1 and, most recently, editor of an essay collection on the two pillars of fiction in America, 'MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction.'(READ MORE)
When Madhulika Sikka was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010, she approached her prognosis and treatment with the skills she picked up as a journalist, assigning research and organizing research. As thorough and level headed as she was, though, there were experiences, feelings, and thoughts that she...(READ MORE)
'My new novel, The Moon Sisters, had an interesting beginning, inspired by real people and their exceptional senses.'(READ MORE)
Hunter S. Thompson passed away this week in history, and we're honoring his fun, freak-filled legacy with a long opening excerpt from his first book, Hell's Angels. (READ MORE)
February 18 marks beloved American novelist Toni Morrison's birthday. To celebrate not only the day, but also her life and legacy, we're looking at seven key quotations from the author's work. (READ MORE)
In Kelly Corrigan's Glitter and Glue, readers are taken on a post-college journey to South Asia and Australia, then surprisingly settle down with an Australian family as Corrigan takes on the unlikely role of nanny for two motherless children. (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)
In her new book, Penelope Rowlands gathered the thoughts of dozens of cultural presences on the impact of the Beatles. Here, we get her take on it all.(READ MORE)
Cummings’s first offering, published in 1922, was not a playful bit of verse but a novel called The Enormous Room, in which he uses his own WWI detainment (in a large room, of course) to inform the novel's premise.(READ MORE)
Norman Mailer was many things: a man of letters, a fighter both figuratively and literally, a Pulitzer-prize winning author, and -- in this excerpt -- a political pundit, arguing why Ernest Hemingway should become president in the 1956 presidential elections.(READ MORE)
