I was a big fan of Laila Lalami's The Other Americans, which I thought was a super book, and I was excited to see that she's published her next novel..
This is the grave of William Porter, better known as O.Henry. Born in 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Porter grew up middle class, the son of a physician. However, his.
A word on the person who I considered the greatest living writer. Alice Munro's stories always touched me deeply, going back to when I first read them about 20 years.
I just finished re-reading Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theater. It's a misogynist book, there's no question about it, but it's also a funny book and a great character, though you certainly.
This is the grave of Albert Murray. Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1916, Murray attended Tuskegee Institute and graduated in 1939. He started a graduate program at the University of.
It's well known that sex is very difficult to reproduce artistically in a non-disastrous way. And the only thing worth than sex in movies is sex in literature. If we.
The great writer and Nobel Prize winner V.S. Naipaul has died. Naipaul could be controversial and I sometimes thought his portrayals of non-whites could actually be near-racist themselves, especially the.
This is the grave of Marcel Proust. Born in 1871 to a wealthy family, Proust was asthmatic and sickly. He grew up and became known as a difficult snob and.
