There’s something sort of unfathomably awesome about being able to make the statement “while I was interviewing BGB-beloved first novelist Rivka Galchen to see what she’s been up to in the year...

Did you ever wonder what happens to all the people who live in a touristy beach town after the summer season is long over?  It turns out they have lives, just like the rest of us.Rosie and...

Have I mentioned that I love Dave Eggers?  Just last week I was getting all geeked out about his upcoming novel The Wild Things.  It turns out he has another book coming out before that one. ...

Wow. This sounds an awful lot like this.

Christopher Hitchens pens an essay on the singular, postmortem career of Stieg Larsson for Vanity Fair.

Paste offers up this list of the Top 10 Debut Novels of the Decade: Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated Junot Diaz – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Zadie Smith – White Teeth Arthur Phillips – Prague Alice Sebold - Lovely...

Things have been quiet around here due to a litany of excuses: old computer finally exhausted my patience (die!), work travel, home construction project, and back out of town for a wedding.   Enjoy these links while the slacking continues: An 11 year...

The  handy graphic guide How to Use an Apostrophe could put this site out of business.  Nah. See also: Apostrophe’s for Sale.