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Say there is a young writer
In the dreamworld of the arts, every inanimate thing is animate, every object contains the entire...
What Is Religion Actually For?: Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury Weigh In
In the nineteen-sixties, the music media encouraged the notion that a young rock-and-roll fan had to...
YOU ARE YOUNGER THAN ADRIEN BRODY! BUT OLDER THAN BUFFY
Because of that decision made in Mountain View, we now have a huge accidental archive of...
RIP Paul Auster: Hear the Master of the Postmodern Page-Turner Discuss How He Became a Writer
In the Louisiana Channel interview clip from 2017 above, the late Paul Auster tells the story...
Merely a best-selling author in these parts, a rock star in Paris.
Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with...
My life has gone off the map, it seems. Possibly also off the rails.
At the frame shop there is so much beauty, it can't be real. Maybe this is...
Behold The Drawings of Franz Kafka (1907–1917)
Runner 1907–1908 UK-born, Chicago-based artist Philip Hartigan has posted a brief video piece about Franz Kafka’s drawings. Kafka,...
‘read and censure ... but buy it first ... whatever you do, buy.’
A Series of Headaches is a video from the London Review of Books following printer Nick...
Hear Flannery O’Connor Read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” (1959)
Flannery O’Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in...
In the future these will be funny stories
It's 2008. Though a San Francisco resident, I crave "Girl in New York" stories. Felicity Porter,...
Could a video game developer win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
In October 2016, the Swedish Academy announced that it was awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature...
6 Badass Librarians Who Changed History
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How the Year 2440 Was Imagined in a 1771 French Sci-Fi Novel
Many Americans might think of Rip Van Winkle as the first man to nod off and...
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier...
Ernest Hemingway’s Advice to Aspiring, Young Writers (1935)
Here in the twenty-twenties, a hopeful young novelist might choose to enroll in one of a...
Lyn Hejinian, 1941-2024
Excerpts from Lyn Hejinian's My Life: "A name trimmed with colored ribbons"; "Reason looks for two,...
The End of the Road: John Barth dies at 93
John Barth, author of books like Sot-Weed Factor, Lost in the Funhouse, Letters and Tidewater Tales,...
Gertrude Stein Gets a Snarky Rejection Letter from a Publisher (1912)
Gertrude Stein considered herself an experimental writer and wrote what The Poetry Foundation calls “dense poems...
Every day, there were fewer and fewer kings.
The Achilles Trap doubles as a surprisingly sympathetic study of a man who, as his powers...
Everyone has an anecdote about García Márquez
I decided, last year, to turn on my recorder again and ask about these past ten...
To read a book well, one should read it as if one were writing it.
After Mrs. Dalloway and before To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf wrote her first essay for The...
When François Truffaut Made a Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
The protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a “fireman” tasked with incinerating what few books...
How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever
Though Jane Austen hasn’t published a novel since 1817 — with her death that same year...