In the decades when he was running the widely influential Off Broadway nonprofit Playwrights Horizons, Tim Sanford would not have been the one driving to New...
Anne Tyler and I sat facing one another on a couch overlooking a man-made pond at her retirement community outside of Baltimore. She moved there in...
Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture, died...
Small wonder, the right-handed daughter grasps later in the left-handed essay, that “when I began to write, I found myself attracted to almosts, to might-have-beens, to...
A reluctant estate saleswoman is tasked with clearing out a house of ill repute in Lipman’s new comic novel. In an email interview, she shared some...
In December 1999, around her 65th birthday, Joan Didion started writing a journal after sessions with her psychiatrist. Over the next year or so, she kept...
A New Zealand woman filed a lawsuit on Monday against Neil Gaiman, the best-selling British author, and his estranged wife, the musician and writer Amanda Palmer,...
“Absolutely riveting” and “compelling.” “A must-read” and “a tour de force.” Blurbs, those haiku-length endorsements on every book jacket, are a ubiquitous part of the literary...
Maybe we all got fed up at the same time. Last week, Sean Manning, the publisher of Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint, announced that it would...
A MATTER OF COMPLEXION: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal On Nov. 10, 1898, thousands of armed white supremacists stormed the...
