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“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
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 …
The Chilling Truths Behind Patricia McCormick’s YA Novels
McCormick talks for the first time about the trauma she suffered as a young girl — which led her to pen stories of other survivors. Her latest, ‘Never Fall Down,’ is the true story of a Cambodian refugee
My Book-Buffer for June and July
Form of: seven book reviews in one post!
Nora Ephron: Remembering Everything
Nora Ephron, who wrote and directed iconic modern romantic comedies and served as the wry voice of multiple generations, died on Tuesday, June 26 of pneumonia, a complication from the acute myeloid leukemia she’d been diagnosed …
Richard Florida on How to Keep America’s Artists From Starving
As his ‘The Rise of the Creative Class’ reaches its tenth anniversary, the controversial urban theorist has a plan to keep the artists from starving. It involves a lot more than art
Charting a New Course: Q&A with Education Visionary Deborah Kenny
“It’s just very strange to have a good thing come from a bad thing”
Q&A: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Writer on Literary Mashups and the Movie that Shouldn’t Exist
“It’s a high-octane summer action movie, and that didn’t come easily to me”
Sex Sells: Get Ready for Fifty Shades of Grey Merch
We all know sex sells, but will it sell stationery? How about home furnishings?
Those questions and more may soon be answered. The team behind E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey, the racy novel that has spent 14 weeks on the New …
Jane on the Brain: Austen Advice-Book Trend Peaks
Why didn’t it take much Persuasion for today’s self-help readers to turn to 200-year-old guidance?