Literature
Hope Springs Eternal at the AWP Conference
The Writing Industry Is Booming, Even if the Book Industry Isn't
The writing industry is booming, even if the book industry isn't.
The god that fails: a novelist’s uneasy relationship with fiction.
Several years ago, David Shields staked out a new literary aesthetic with Reality Hunger. His latest, How Literature Saved My Life, reads like so many strung-together blog posts. But does that matter?
The only thing more common than bad sex? Bad writing about sex. A novelist describes the dangers of the smitten word.
Excess Baggage—The Voluminous Diaries of Christopher Isherwood
Isherwood's overflowing diaries are in need of a thorough edit.
Gospel Truth—Colm Tóibín Reinvents Mary
The Roberto Bolaño Bubble
ALTHOUGH IT HAS been nearly a decade since Roberto Bolaño’s death, he has been publishing at an enviable clip. His latest book, Woes of the True Policeman, is not even his first this year: last spring there appeared The Secret of Evil, a collection of nineteen largely unfinished stories.
