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I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know — the guy …
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My plan for a books column this week was to write about the endings of novels. I swear to God it was – I can show you the notes. But my friend …
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Over in some other post on this site, we all listed our favorite Cultural Moments from 2011. That struck me as such a good idea that I thought …
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Me, I don’t remember a time before Tintin. I grew up on him — those big floppy paperback editions you could practically get lost in. As a …
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The book business goes on a bit of a hiatus in December. If you release a book now you don’t really have time to push it out to bookstores …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
There’s no point in trying to summarize Inferno, because it’s a book written against summaries. It’s an anti-summary.
I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read The Long Walk, one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read The Dark Half, which taught me a word I have …
There isn’t actually an untold Jobs/Didion story. I just wanted you to read this.
Jobs did go out with Joan Baez though, when he was 27 and she was 41. In his new biography Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson tells an incredible story about them. Jobs (who was already massively wealthy) kept telling Baez (who wasn’t) about this amazing red dress
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Six months ago, when David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King came out, I wrote an essay about it in TIME. I thought it was a good essay. So good was it, I thought, that when Longreads.com picked its favorite long-form essays of the …
