Not all of these biographies can or should be used as strict guidelines for living, but they do brighten our understanding of the astounding mark some leave on the foot trails of human culture.(READ MORE)
John Lahr's exhaustive and brilliant new Tennessee Williams biography chronicles the playwright's creative collaboration with director Elia Kazan. (READ MORE)
What should you be reading this September? You've a wealth of options, ranging from Lena Dunham's memoir to a Tennessee Williams biography to a morticians account of the recently deceased, and more! (READ MORE)
Playwright and fiction writer James Leo Herlihy, born on this day in 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, is best remembered for his novel Midnight Cowboy -- and we're starting to get to know so much more worth remembering. (READ MORE)
Olivia Laing is on a personal and literary quest in The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, which follows the influence of alcohol in the lives of John Berryman, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. (READ MORE)
There's a satisfyingly voyeuristic aspect to reading an author's diary or journal. The words were written without an audience in mind (we presume), so there's a feeling of intimacy and candor in the writing. In the reading...a slight sense of intrusion. That feeling lingers whether you snuck into your...(READ MORE)
