This week in history, crime-fiction writer Raymond Chandler was born. Pull the trigger and start reading these 9 quotes from the great hard-boiled writer, and learn why you should never proofread a Chandler article. (READ MORE)
Editor's Note: Drummond Moir grew up in Edinburgh and studied at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and Daiichi Keizai University in Fukuoka, Japan. He is the editorial director at Sceptre, and his most recent book is Just My Typo, a hilarious collection of written work gone wrong by a simple poor stroke...(READ MORE)
For Biographile’s That Summer series, 'Save the Date' author Jen Doll looks back to a post-high school summer during which she learned the importance of continued writing.(READ MORE)
Robin Black, most recently the author of Life Drawing, discusses the facts of her own life and how they've seamlessly been absorbed into her fiction writing. (READ MORE)
In 'Things I Don't Want to Know,' Deborah Levy takes a stirring stand in favor of the political nature of the female writer's interior life. Taking it one empowering step further, she also wants to emphasize the right of women to take on as vast a portion of the world as she wishes. (READ MORE)
Even if Tobias Wolff, who turns sixty-nine today (June 19), never writes another word, he can rest assured he proved his stepfather wrong: when it comes to writing with truth and integrity, he knows it all.(READ MORE)
Richard Hoffman is the author of Love & Fury, a memoir about the knotted ties of family and forgiveness. He joins us today to discuss the meaning of memoir, and how truth rarely lies at the surface of the search. (READ MORE)
Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams, will be publishing the new collections Archive Lush and Ghost Essays with Little, Brown. (READ MORE)
On June 10, 1915, this week in history, writer Saul Bellow was born. Let's honor Bellow's brilliance and formidable literary chops with these nine quotes, brimming with the brine of life. (READ MORE)
Joanna Rakoff, author of the new memoir My Salinger Year, recently answered questions by email for Biographile about Salinger’s work, the evolution of her own writing, and boorish literary men.(READ MORE)
