Nothing Funnier Than Unhappiness: A Necessarily Ill-Informed Argument for Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth as the Funniest Book Ever Written 7

Here’s how funny it is: It’s funnier than A Confederacy of Dunces. It’s funnier than Money or Lucky Jim. It beats Shalom Auslander to a bloody, chuckling pulp with his own funny-bone. It is certainly the funniest book I’ve ever read.

Fifty Shades of Scandal 0

Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism 0

A Sentimental Education: Sex and the Literary Writer 31

The word that made me lift my fingers from the keyboard was "clitoris." Was it okay to use this word? What would my fellow literary writers, my former teachers and classmates at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop think of me?

Blursing In Disguise 0

Finding an Audience Abroad: Who’s Read in France 17

Most literary novelists feel relatively confident they can sell copies of their newly published book to their parents, probably to their siblings, maybe (if they haven’t sparred too often over loud music or lawnmowers or leaf blowers) to their neighbors. Whose work gets read outside of America?

The Amazon Alphabet: From Audio Books to Zoo 4

The ABCs of Amazon: a peek into the reading habits of America and, like it or not, a primer for what's popular in the world of books.

“The history of sex is also a literary history.” 0

Mr. E.L. James 0

Here We Go, I Guess 0

Aargh! 0