Notable Articles
January 3, 2012
Most Anticipated: The Great 2012 Book Preview 74
by Editor
At 8,400 words strong and encompassing 81 titles, this is the only 2012 book preview you will ever need.
October 17, 2011
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Write ‘The Marriage Plot’ 23
by Jeffrey Eugenides
The irony was clear: here I was, cheating on a novel that had once been my mistress!
October 11, 2011
Bartleby’s Occupation of Wall Street 38
by Hannah Gersen
If Occupy Wall Street has any goal, it should be to have the same effect that great literature has — to unsettle.
September 2, 2011
Why Are So Many Literary Writers Shifting into Genre? 84
by Kim Wright
Is it a mass sellout, a belated and half-hearted attempt by writers to chase the market? Or are two disparate worlds finally merging?
August 23, 2011
Shutting the Drawer: What Happens When a Book Doesn’t Sell? 65
by Edan Lepucki
The truth is, my novel isn’t selling, and it probably won’t. There, I’ve said it. Eventually, a writer must accept rejection, accept the death of her first true darling, and move on. Can I face that sobering reality? Can I put my first book into the drawer, and shut it?
August 18, 2011
Making Room for Readers 38
by Steve Himmer
It’s a mistake to rarify reading and put books out of reach. It’s a mistake to assume that readers are “mostly born and only a little made.” Because those discoveries in libraries and bookstores — and, yes, on my parents’ shelves, too — are what made me a reader, not some mysterious, bibliogenic accident of birth.
