Remembering Tom Wolfe by some of his best lines (and attire)
The literary world has been piling up the panegyrics all week for Tom Wolfe, the fire-crackling prose writer and purveyor of New Journalism who died on Monday at the age of eighty-eight. Picking up… Read more »
“I knew that this would someday be a funny story”
Because it’s Valentine’s Day and also the seventy-third birthday of Carl Bernstein, Watergate reporter, Hillary Clinton ghost writer, and CNN commentator, why not reprint some of his ex-wife Nora Ephron’s last interview, discussing their… Read more »
From the godfather of the financial thriller: five books and five movies that get Wall Street right
In honor of the publication of Fixers, Michael M. Thomas’ big novel of big money on Wall Street, we asked the novelist and former Lehman Brothers partner about the books and… Read more »
Trailer for J.D. Salinger documentary released
This is a big year for literature in films, between the overblown Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby and the much more appealing take on Much Ado About Nothing by Joss Whedon hitting… Read more »
Fifty years ago, a strike that changed New York publishing
Fifty years ago this month Local No. 6 of the International Typographical Union (I.T.U.), a union confederation known by the nickname the “Big Six,” went to war with New York’s… Read more »
Enter the Storyverse
Most avid readers would readily admit to having an obsessive side. A tech startup, Small Demons, aims to appeal to, nay manipulate, those literary obsessions, and the idea behind it… 1 / Read more »