Zen of Writing

Writer Etgar Keret's tiny studio space is only four feet wide. My first thought was, of course, where does he keep his books?? But, I ...

that won its author, Junot Diaz, £30,000, or $45,696 at the current exchange rate. We love Junot Diaz and we love his books, but WOW, that i...

“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they ...

From The Paris Review : “There’s a difference,” remarked one colleague, “between getting a girl to think you’re smart, and getting a girl to...

Space ships are not miracles of technology, but psychic conveyances, serving the same purpose as Dorothy's whirlwind-borne house in The ...

First, let me say I love the Melville House Books site (see sidebar), and many of their titles. Here they report on Amazon's plan to st...

Esquire plans to publish men's fiction ebooks: His [David Granger, editor in chief of Esquire] definition of men’s fiction? Work that is...

I hate to write. I have to force myself every day to sit down and begin. This is the first thing that I always tell students, who have absor...

After recently having a frustrating "discussion" with a male friend who insisted that "women don't write big books,"...

Some of these are kind of predictable, Emily Dickinson's New England bedroom, e.g. Truman Capote's looks a bit austere until you re...

The ubiquity of phone booths is interesting because they are completely obsolete, unevenly distributed in outlying neighborhoods and they ca...

Melville House reports that Penguin has stopped selling e-books to libraries, in the fear that borrowing them will become too "frictio...

"Late Friday, just days after the country’s biggest brick-and-mortar chain, Barnes & Noble, announced it would not sell books publi...

"We should think about terrorism not as a battle between Islam and the West but as a battle within Islam, says author Salman Rushdie. A...