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Interview With Vendela Vida About Always Apprentices

Nicki Richesin | Posted 04.19.2013 | Books
Nicki Richesin

It may come as something of a surprise that Vendela Vida doesn't have access to the internet at her home, but make no mistake, she's very connected.

How Zadie Smith Is Trying to Wake White Writers Up

Christina Patterson | Posted 12.10.2012 | Books
Christina Patterson

Smith is, in fact, following a path along which some other writers have walked. You could say that it was a path that started with Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.

The Book We're Talking About This Week

Posted 09.04.2012 | Books

"NW" by Zadie Smith Penguin, $26.95 September 4, 2012 What is it about? The book is about four Londoners' adult lives outside their childhood ho...

Mallika Rao

Zadie Smith's Welcome Return

HuffingtonPost.com | Mallika Rao | Posted 09.04.2012 | Books

Zadie Smith has always been a gifted impressionist, sometimes to her detriment. In her debut novel White Teeth, the breadth of accents and dialect...

Hugh Dancy Hits the Spot: Hysteria

Regina Weinreich | Posted 07.15.2012 | Entertainment
Regina Weinreich

The new movie Hysteria answers an age old question, what do women want most?

Talking About Education in the Information Age

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 05.13.2012 | Home
Nathan Hegedus

I have bought into the idea that our schools are built for an industrial age long past. I do not want my daughter sitting at a desk all day.

How Do Our Facebook Selves Write About Death?

Lucas Kavner | Posted 04.14.2012 | Home
Lucas Kavner

As Houston's family and close friends mourn, do our "RIP Whitney" posts mean something, sandwiched between posts about cereal and recaps of The Bachelor, especially after we've watched, over many years, her slow-motion fall from grace?

Literary Love Letters To NYC

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.01.2011 | Books

From time to time, we all second-guess why we live in New York — especially in the wake of a pleasant holiday weekend away. It’s crowded, expensiv...

PHOTOS: 15 Cool Book Covers That Didn't Make The Cut

nytimes.com | Posted 07.16.2011 | Books

For authors, choosing a book cover is the fraught moment their very private creation starts putting on its game face and getting ready to enter the ma...

Zadie Smith's Rules For Writers

guardian.co.uk | Posted 06.26.2011 | Books

We asked some of the most esteemed contemporary authors for any golden rules they bring to their writing practice. Here are Zadie Smith's...

Spreading the Love: Book Reviews, Good and Bad

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Nina Sankovitch

I've received a number of emails and comments lately, with various undertones of censure, stating that I only write good reviews. "Don't you have anything bad to say?" is the implied question.

Is Rap Poetry?

The Poetry Foundation | Adam Kirsch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

The Poetry Foundation: How Ya Like Me Now Does rap's suspended adolescence keep it from serious consideration? By Adam Kirsch The Anthology ...

David Pogue Makes Technology Seem Simpler

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Danny Groner

As the intersection between media and politics has become clearer, so too has the blending of technology and culture. And Pogue's at the forefront of this movement.

Am I Better Than Facebook?

Claire Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Claire Gordon

Facebook me is better than actual me. Smarter, wittier, funner, prettier. But does Facebook, as a platform, reduce the richness of my personhood? Absolutely.

New York Public Library Honors 2010 Lions

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

Literary luminaries gathered last night at the New York Public Library for its annual Library Lions dinner. This year's honorees included two writer...

Zadie Smith, Chuck Klosterman

newhavenreview.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

OK, so you may remember that a few months back a little magazine called The New Yorker decided to make a list of 20 top fiction writers under the age ...

New Yorker Festival 2010 Lineup Announced: Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell, Dave Eggers

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

The weekend of October 1st is going to be very busy in the literary world, as heavy hitters from across all book genres are slated to appear at the 11...

Slate: What The College-Bound Really Need To Read

Slate Magazine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Injustice and undesirable furniture aren't so great for the beach. So we thought we'd offer incoming freshmen an alternative list, one better suited t...

Steve Martin, Ethan Hawke Among 'Literary Lions' Honored By New York Public Library

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

NEW YORK — Steve Martin has been recognized in New York as a literary lion. The actor-author-playwright was among five Library Lions announced ...

Writers Who Teach: Ten Novel Professors (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Natalie Sudikoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | College

Want to learn creative writing from a famous novelist? How about poetry from a poet laureate? Here are ten famous contemporary writers who are also pr...

Zadie Smith, Nadine Gordimer On Guardian Hay Festival Lineup

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Bill Clinton called it the "Woodstock of the mind" while Joseph Heller said it was like a cross between "an international conference and a country wed...

British Authors And Publishers Opt Out Of Google Books En Masse

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Some 6,500 writers, from Thomas Pynchon to Jeffrey Archer, have opted out of Google's controversial plan to digitise millions of books....

David Shields: 'The Novel Died On Me'

The Rumpus | Caleb Powell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

David Shields, author of three novels and seven works of nonfiction, attempts to demolish the foundations of literature in his latest, Reality Hunger:...

The Best Books of the Decade

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Anis Shivani

Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."

LA Times' Best Fiction And Nonfiction Of 2009

Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

The Los Angeles Times has joined the ever-growing crowd with its own "Best of 2009" lists -- separate for fiction and non-fiction, 25 books each. The ...