George Saunders Wins the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Complete with £50,000 and Everlasting International Glory
October 17, 2017
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Scary Literary Fiction for People Who Hate Horror
But still want some chills and thrills in this, our spookiest season
October 17, 2017
By Emily Temple
14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors
"I got a little bored after a time. I mean, the road seemed to be awfully long."
October 16, 2017
By Emily Temple
Art Inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities
"Elsewhere is a negative mirror."
October 13, 2017
By Emily Temple
A Selection of Virginia Woolf’s Most Savage Insults
Marmoreal, Uncooked, Inarticulate, Pimpled, Unrefined, Limp
October 12, 2017
By Emily Temple
The 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Grant Winners in Literature
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jesmyn Ward, and Annie Baker: Now Official Geniuses
October 11, 2017
By Emily Temple
Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation
"When you paint apples do you feel that your breasts
and your knees become apples, too?"
October 11, 2017
By Emily Temple
40 of the Creepiest Book Covers of All Time
Open if You Dare
October 6, 2017
By Emily Temple
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro
Author of Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go
October 5, 2017
By Emily Temple
10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)
A Brief History of Bibliocide
October 4, 2017
By Emily Temple
Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States
October 3, 2017
By Emily Temple
Read William S. Burroughs’s Hate Letter to Truman Capote
Can One Writer Curse Another for Life?
October 2, 2017
By Emily Temple
Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist
"I think I don't believe very much in psychotherapy for creative people."
September 29, 2017
By Emily Temple
Read 10 of the Best Stories Ever Published in Playboy
From J.G. Ballard to Gabriel García Márquez to Bharati Mukherjee
September 29, 2017
By Emily Temple
Literary Highlights from Everyone’s Favorite Wedding Column
Or: Old Gossip is Still Good Gossip
September 28, 2017
By Emily Temple
10 Songs for J.G. Ballard’s Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London
Playlist for a Classic Novel: The Drowned World
September 27, 2017
By Emily Temple
8 Notable Attempts to Hack the New York Times Bestseller List
Surprise: Republican Politicians Also Cheat at Book Sales
September 26, 2017
By Emily Temple
20 Pieces of Writing Advice from
William Faulkner
"Don't be 'a writer' but instead be writing."
September 25, 2017
By Emily Temple
12 Literary Writers on Stephen King’s Influence
Happy Birthday to the King of Horror
September 21, 2017
By Emily Temple
The Reading Lists Hidden Inside 12 Great Books
Or: Some Books That Mention a Lot of Other Books
September 20, 2017
By Emily Temple
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