The Mystery Guest
The following is from Nita Prose’s The Mystery Guest. Prose is the author of The Maid, which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and was published in more than…
Gaza’s main public library has been destroyed.
November 27, 2023, 4:18pm Authorities in Gaza City have condemned what they say was the deliberate destruction of the city’s main public library by Israeli forces after finding the building…
Check out Paul Lynch’s reaction to winning the Booker Prize.
November 27, 2023, 11:18am Paul Lynch proved the bookies right when he became the sixth Irish writer (after Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Anne Enright, and Anna Burns) to…
Will Haberman and Swan’s 2025 Trump book be a comedy or a tragedy?
November 27, 2023, 8:59am Photo by Rachel Cobb Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have signed a lucrative deal with Simon & Schuster to write a book about whatever the hell…
How a Lawyer, a Businessman, and the Mafia Destroyed Public Transit in the Twin Cities
There is a common folk theory that the North American streetcar disappeared because of a conspiracy. Allegedly, industrialists connected with the auto and motor bus industries bought up North American…
Gabriel García Márquez on the Magic of Juan Rulfo
My discovery of Juan Rulfo – like that of Kafa – will without doubt be an essential chapter in my memoirs. I had arrived in Mexico on the same day…
Booker Prize Winner Paul Lynch on the Fundamental Dignity of the Individual
Prophet Song is a terrifying book—this much you’ll have gathered from peer blurbs, readers’ reports and media reviews. Paul Lynch’s fifth novel comes direct from the can’t-happen-here school of near-future dystopian,…
Writing “Women of a Certain Age.” A Roundtable on Crafting Older Female Characters in Fiction
The idea of exploring mature female characters came to me while rereading Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa, I realized with a jolt, is only fifty-one.There are moments when she feels like a…
(Don’t) Watch Your Tongue: Why Swearing Is Fun
Featured image: Jonathan Rolande via Flickr How are swear words born? The process begins with certain words being widely dispreferred within a given community. This sets the scene for the…
Do You Believe in Magic? On The Timeless Charm of Children’s Books
I make books about books, and every year hundreds of people commission me to make custom art prints for them or their loved ones, of the spines of the books…