Are Murakami's symbols intentional or meaningless? We may never know, but it’s worth investigating some of the more common names that appear from book to book, if only to hope for a glimpse inside the uncannily inventive writer's mind.(READ MORE)
Author Lan Cao joins Biographile to reminisce on the distance that has grown between her and her native Vietnam, a gap she helps close with her latest novel The Lotus and the Storm.(READ MORE)
Benjamin Moser, author of Why This World, a biography of Clarice Lispector, chats with us about staying organized, finding passion in your subjects, and his forthcoming work on Susan Sontag.(READ MORE)
Rebecca Makkai, author of The Hundred-Year House, joins us to explain how she killed off Georgia O'Keeffe with the stroke of a pen, and how inventing fictional characters interests her far more than channeling real ones(READ MORE)
While writers are often depicted as tortured and victims of their self-inflicted maladies, Flannery O'Connor bucks the trends. Living an ordinary life but penning extraordinary tales, O'Connor's legacy remains a rarity on the writing scene. (READ MORE)
Hampton Sides, author of In the Kingdom of Ice, spoke with Biographile about the process of researching and writing his book, and why the most far-fetched theories about the Pole may have been troublingly prescient.(READ MORE)
Books often defy easy classification. Take, for instance, the hybrid memoir: part fancy, part fact. Some of the most enjoyable, challenging reading experiences are with these unclassifiable pieces of writing. Here are a few genre-defying works.(READ MORE)
Orin Hargraves’s new book charts the tricky world of clichés – and we’ve got some follow-up recommendations.(READ MORE)
Gérard de Villiers, the French author of a best-selling spy series, had written 200 novels when he died last year. Whatever his methods, and whatever his informants’ motives, the writer had an ability to predict and describe global politics that was downright spooky.(READ MORE)
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)
