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True Blood Exclusive: 3 Bloody Good Recipes from the Official Vampire Cookbook
Have you got a vampire’s appetite?
SEALs Turned Authors: A Military Reading List
A former Navy SEAL is set to release a book about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden. But he’s far from the first SEAL to tell all in print.
The Navy SEAL Tell-All: Anonymous Osama bin Laden Memoir Slated for Sept. 11
“Mark Owen” doesn’t exist—at least not by that name—but he’s making big news this morning in the publishing world. (And the rest of the world too.) The pseudonymous ex-Navy-SEAL is the author of No Easy Day: The Firsthand …
A Roaring Literary Lion: Remembering Gore Vidal, 1925–2012
From ‘The Best Man’ to ‘Myra Breckinridge,’ nothing was out of bounds in the work of this famed man of letters
Karl Taro Greenfeld on His New Book, Urban Origin Myths and Whether Dads Can “Have It All”
“I think every writer tends to write about his immediate environment.”
“Queen of Erotica” Zane On How Fifty Shades Affects the Sexy-Book Scene
“I just write stories.”
The New Yorker Publishes F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Previously Rejected in 1936
The Shining Prequel?: Horror Classic May Get Backstory
Jack Torrance may be returning to the Overlook Hotel
Can a New Comics-Only Crowdfunding Platform Help Find the Next Stan Lee?
Pow! Blam! Funding!
Kurt Andersen on His New Novel, the Generation Gap and Pyromania
Meeting your heroes isn’t supposed to work, but Kurt Andersen has been nothing but nice to me since I met the cofounder of SPY—the magazine that made me want to work for magazines—more than a decade ago. Andersen has been a …
I Hate This Book So Much: A Meditation
(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.)
I cannot stand this book I’m reading right now.
It’s a novel. It’s by a writer who is generally described as Great, but who I’ve …
Behind the Scenes with Batman: The Making of Christopher Nolan’s Trilogy
The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy, a new book by Jody Duncan Jesser and Janine Pourroy, tells the behind-the-scenes story of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises—complete with never-before-seen …