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...
“I don’t think anyone past the pickle shop is getting in,” said Patrick McGraw, gesturing to Sweet Pickle Books, a few doors down from the start...
Millicent Dillon, a novelist and prizewinning short-story writer who was best known for nonfiction that chronicled the eccentric, expatriate American literary couple Jane and Paul Bowles,...
MEMORIAL DAYS: A Memoir, by Geraldine Brooks Behind every good book lurks another, smaller book: a sidecar, an appendage, a mental dividend. Most never get written,...
