- April 19, 2010
- Mailer’s Women: The Posthumous Brawl
How fitting: Last week, Norman Mailer’s sixth and last wife, Norris Church Mailer, published A Ticket to the Circus on the same day that his mistress of nine years, Carole Mallory, came out with her much trashier Loving Mailer.
- April 19, 2010
- Is This Book Worth Getting?
A no-frills guide to the spring fiction shelf.
- April 12, 2010
- Betraying Salinger
I scored the publishing coup of the decade: his final book. And then I blew it.
- April 5, 2010
- Sage of the Apocalypse
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany’s loopy sci-fi masterpiece, lives to destroy again.
- March 29, 2010
- A Conversation With Jules Feiffer
In his new memoir, the artist credits �lack of talent� for his success.
- March 8, 2010
- The Loser Chronicles
With his new novel, �The Ask,’ Sam Lipsyte finds the funny in failure.
- February 8, 2010
- The Accidental Prophet
How novelist Adam Haslett got to the financial crisis before we did.
- February 1, 2010
- Conversation: Love by the Book
An author talks (and writes) about meeting and having a child with his actress dream girl.
- January 4, 2010
- The View From His Window
Photographer W. Eugene Smith’s infatuated vision.
- December 8, 2009
- Court of Opinion
Taking on Bill Simmons and The Book of Basketball.