Bellow to Mailer: Edward Mendelson’s 8 ‘Moral Agents,’ Illustrated
Nathan Gelgud illustrates Edward Mendelson’s archetypal interpretations of eight major American writers including Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W.H. Auden. (READ MORE)
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Train of Thought: Amtrak’s Writer-Residents and the Pleasures of Railways
In the anthology The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments From Lives on the Road, Paul Theroux highlights the pleasures of train travel. The book serves as a great companion for the Amtrak Residency program for writers. (READ MORE)
Alcohol and Creativity: A Journey to Understand Addiction in the Lives of 6 Great Writers
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)
The Paris Review Interviews Boxed Set Quiz
Befriend, or at the very least, begin to understand some of your favorite writers as they present themselves in the pages if The Paris Review Interviews, Vols. I-IV, then take this quiz to find out how well you know them.(READ MORE)
The Magnetic Force Field of The Paris Review Interviews Vols. I—IV
In "The Art of Editing" interview with Robert Gottlieb in The Paris Review Interviews (Boxed Set), Vols I-IV, writers from Joseph Heller to the biographer Robert Caro weigh in on working with the legendary editor. (READ MORE)
Literary Muses: Writers Inspired by Writers
In “The Man Within My Head,” writer Pico Iyer travels around the globe on the trail of the writer who’s come to obsess him: Graham Greene. In the vein of literary adoration, here's a list of other books in which writers wrestle with their literary muses and investigate the nature of their adoration.(READ MORE)
Cheers to Hemingway and the Good Life: A Cocktail Companion
Need a drink? This here collection of Hemingway’s preferred concoctions was culled straight from the mind and heart of scholarly mixologist Philip Greene, who gathered a few basic ingredients plus heaping doses of cocktail history, then wrote down all the reasons Hemingway preferred these drinks to...(READ MORE)
The Private Life of Kurt Vonnegut, As Captured in His Letters
Nathan Gelgud uses the first entry in the newly published “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters,” edited by Dan Wakefield, as inspiration to capture the Vonnegut that we meet in the book. (READ MORE)
John Cheever at 100: A Daughter’s Reflection
May 27, 2012 would be the 100th birthday of John Cheever, the influential twentieth century fiction writer affectionately known as "the Chekhov of the suburbs." On the occasion of his centennial, his daughter Susan Cheever spoke to Biographile this week from Yaddo, an artists' community located on 400...(READ MORE)
