Recent Articles
August 22, 2010
A DeLillo Retrospective 1
by Garth Risk Hallberg
In its recently released third issue, The Point - a terrific Chicago-based journal of ideas – takes up the vexed question of Don DeLillo‘s literary significance.
August 20, 2010
Robert Englund, Reader 0
by Edan Lepucki
Want to know what what Freddy Krueger’s reading? On his Twitter feed, actor (and author!) Robert Englund reports his favorite reads. Recently: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan and The Singer’s Gun by The Millions contributor Emily St. John Mandel.
August 20, 2010
Elizabeth Gilbert’s Ex-Husband Can also Write a Memoir 0
by Edan Lepucki
The former Mrs. Elizabeth Gilbert–that is, Michael Cooper, the husband Gilbert left at the opening of Eat Pray Love, has apparently written a book about his life after their divorce. Will it ever be published?
August 20, 2010
Mr. Rochester is a Creep: A List 39
by Edan Lepucki
Charlotte and Emily Brontё were deeply weird, and they (or, okay, their protagonists) were into some deeply weird men.
August 20, 2010
On Coincidence, Love, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being 6
by Bezalel Stern
Death is hidden somewhere in the middle of the book, and it doesn’t mean a thing.
August 19, 2010
Seduction Through Literature 0
by Ujala Sehgal
At The Paris Review Daily, Sarah Fay ruminates on her questionable practice of using literature to seduce men: “Wasn’t I just trying to bribe men hungry for something to read? … How could I deliver book recommendations for an entire marriage?”
