Talented Mr Ripley

The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Worst Person Who Ever Lived Makes for a Great Biography

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lesbians, Thrillers, Patricia Highsmith, Fiction, Bestsellers, Jews, Holocaust, Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Talented Mr. Ripley, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

She drank a quart of gin a day. She considered robbery worse than murder. No wonder Joan Schenkar begins The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith like this: "She wasn't nice."

Read Post

Top 10 Anti-heroes: The Worst-Behaved In Literature

The Guardian | Francesca Simon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kids' Books, Heroes, Book Characters, Calvin and Hobbes, Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, Books, Children's Books, Talented Mr. Ripley, Pippi Longstocking, Anti-Heroes, Worst-Behaved, Books News

"I have always loved books about rebels and non-conformists, people who swagger through life with a fierce edge and a stubborn refusal to behave thems...

Read Whole Story