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Anne McCaffrey died a week and a half ago, on November 21. I never met her — she lived in Ireland in a house called Dragonhold that she …
Books
The Whore of Akron: More Than Just a LeBron James Takedown
The invective poets of ancient Rome had nothing on Scott Raab, author of The Whore of Akron: One Man’s Search For The Soul of LeBron James. It’s part unauthorized LeBron James biography, part personal memoir, all unabashed …
After The Bomb: Don DeLillo Tells Us What to Fear
The author’s new short story collection, The Angel Esmerelda, slightly erases from memory the past decade and a half of his work.
Galley Girl: Poet Nikky Finney Dazzles the National Book Awards
Once a week, publishing reporter Andrea Sachs will recap the most interesting news in book publishing.
Writing a book of poetry isn’t the easiest way to make a splash. After all, as one frustrated modern poet, Don Marquis, …
Don’t Tell Ann Patchett That Bookstores Are Dying
TIME loved the novel State of Wonder. We talk to its author about her new venture, Parnassus Books.
In Praise of P.G. Wodehouse
I got a late start on P.G. Wodehouse. When I went out on a book tour earlier this year my wife stuffed a copy of Right Ho, Jeeves into my bag and told me I’d thank her later. At the time I didn’t really know who Wodehouse …
Galley Girl: A JFK Resurgance and a Year in Heaven
Once a week, publishing reporter Andrea Sachs will recap the most interesting news in book publishing.
CAMELOT LIT
The assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 was the Baby Boomer generation’s 9/11, as author …
Behind the List: The Making of TIME’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Or 20, really, since we do 10 novels and 10 non-fiction books.
There are years when I’m absolutely burning to put up my top 10 lists, like I want to chisel them on a tablet and come down a mountain with them and proclaim them …
Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto—Why Do We Love To Invent Languages?
Invented languages do more than cause lively debates among Star Trek fans. Esperanto, and other international tongues, are meant to repair the plague of Babel. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish and its ilk help readers escape deep into …
Marcel the Shell Gets His Book On
Jenny Slate, creator of the viral video hit, talks about her new children’s book and debuts a new Marcel the Shell video.
“'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false-righteousness.”
Galley Girl: The Week in Publishing
Once a week, publishing reporter Andrea Sachs will recap the most interesting news in book publishing.
IT’S ALL GREEK TO ME
A high-school classics teacher sends a manuscript of her first novel to an agent in Manhattan, …
My Five Things: Wicked Novelist Gregory Maguire
Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and the new Out of Oz, picks the five things he’s really enjoying right now.
