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Roger Angell’s new book, Let Me Finish, is a memoir by way of essays. In it he vividly, heartbreakingly traces 86 years as a New Yorker and nearly as many working at The New Yorker.

How are you supposed to cultivate sources like Alec without doing something slightly unethical?� Kate Simon asks herself in Deborah Schoeneman’s first novel, 4% Famous.

The response to my essay on plagiarism last week (�Where Have I Read That Before?�) was swift, so here goes: Yes, it is plagiarized. Ninety- nine percent of it.

Jancee Dunn, grand wizard of the celebrity profile and all-around nice Jersey girl, reveals the secrets to making any star open up in her new memoir, But Enough About Me.

Why is Leonard Cohen so downright content these days?

The scourge of plagiarism is plaguing all writers. Thanks to Kaavya, everyone’s a suspect.

Harvey Pekar is setting his sights on stories told by others, beginning with his new book, Ego & Hubris.

The punkish novelist A. M. Homes is now a stay-at-home mom. Kind of.

Q&A with Craig Ferguson, host of the Late Late Show and Writer of the new novel Between the Bridge and the River.

Literary libertines Edmund White and Erica Jong have long used their own amorous histories in the service of fiction. But now both have new (and newly revelatory) memoirs out. Prompting the entirely academic query: Who’s had a more interesting sex life?