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Convince Me to Read: THE GOLDFINCH

I am incredibly hesitant about reading brand new books. I get nervous about investing my time in titles that are ...

Confessions of a Booker Prize Judge

Stuart Kelly, Booker Prize judge, reveals the behind the scenes process that led to Eleanor Catton winning the 2013 prize for The Luminaries

Pearl Buck and the Posthumous Novel

A short time ago, I came across Shortlist.com’s list of the “30 Greatest Posthumous Novels.” There were the usual suspects: ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in October

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...

The Confidence Index: INHERENT VICE

Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s follow-up to his critical darling The Master is an adaption of Thomas Pychon’s 2009 goofball of ...

An Open Letter to Dave Eggers

Dear Dave, Can I call you Dave? When I teach A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, I call you Eggers. But ...

Oscar Hijuelos in His Own Words

Cuban-American author Oscar Hijuelos died on Saturday, October 12, at the age of 62.  In 1989, he became the first ...

SUPERCUT: Jhumpa Lahiri

SUPERCUT is a feature where we collect interesting snippets from the best author interviews and combine them into a single ...

Getting Started with Alice Munro

Today, Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for Literature. We thought many readers might want some suggestions about how to ...

Does the MacArthur Genius Grant Result in More Genius?

In 1981, Cormac McCarthy, at age 48, was named one of the first MacArthur Foundation Fellows (more commonly known these ...