In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son. Read more
Category: Authors
The Essential Neil Gaiman
The man behind the landmark reboot of “The Sandman” comic (and Netflix series) is going strong after decades of writing in just about every format. Here’s where to get started with his books for adults. Read more
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5 Authors Who Took Things Too Far
Authors are strange figures, constantly having sex in graveyards, getting fooled by fairies and engaging in other such activities that remind us they’re all doomed to madness. Read more
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The Greatest Literary Feuds and Gossip of All Time
There’s nothing better than a good piece of gossip. Sadly, in the literary world, most gossip either falls into one of two categories: boring, or depressing. Blistering correspondences between great men of letters? Boring. Unhappily married poets? Depressing. Who cares who Phillip Larkin cheated on his girlfriend with, besides presumably Phillip Larkin’s girlfriend. Read more
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From Jazz Age Renegade to Best-Selling Chronicler of Women’s Lives
A decorated writer in the 1940s, Nancy Hale analyzed the gap between the rhetoric of liberation and the realities of female experience. Why has she fallen into obscurity? Read more
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Reanimating Cavafy, a Poet of ‘Future Generations’ Whose Time Is Now
In the festival “Archive of Desire,” artists and musicians thoughtfully engage with the writing of Constantine P. Cavafy, a self-assessed “ultramodern poet.” Read more
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Lydia Davis Refuses to Sell Her Next Book on Amazon
Due to be published just before Bookshop Day on 7 October, Our Strangers will only be sold in physical bookshops, Bookshop.org and selected online independent retailers. Read more
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The Oddballs and Odysseys of Charles Portis
Portis’s genius went beyond character in the strictly literary sense, to reveal something about moral character and many somethings about the character of this country. Read more
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French Writer Houellebecq Loses Bid to Ban Dutch Porn Film
The plot could have come from one of controversial French author Michel Houellebecq’s own dark novels — an ageing writer features in a porn film, only to regret it later. Read more
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Is This Ghostwriter the ‘Biggest Serial Plagiarist of All Time’?
For over a decade, Kristin Loberg has quietly co-authored a long list of bestselling books for medical superstars like David Agus and Sanjay Gupta. Now she’s embroiled in a growing plagiarism scandal that has her celebrity clients worried sick. Read more
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