Yesterday, I did not find Joyce Carol Oates.

It was one of the day's storylines that I find her at the Brooklyn Book Festival and tell her about that time in the fall of 2015 when I attended solely as a fan and spotted what I thought was her doppelgänger dutifully underlining a copy of Phil Klay's Redeployment on the steps outside the Brooklyn ( Read more... )

-- John le Carré and I worked for years on his biography. Why is he telling his own story 12 months later? - Adam Sisman, The Guardian, Sept. 16, 2016 ( Read more... )

-- Mother, Writer, Monster, Maid - Rufi Thorpe, Vela, Jun. 21, 2016 ( Read more... )

-- The Daoud Affair - Adam Shatz, The London Review of Books, Mar. 4, 2016 ( Read more... )

-- Jonathan Franzen on his misanthropic reputation: 'We live in a world of cant' - Michelle Dean, The Guardian, May 27, 2015 ( Read more... )

-- Didion & Dunne: The Rewards of a Literary Marriage - Leslie Garis, The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 8, 1987 ( Read more... )

Attended a reading at Shakespeare & Co (at the invitation of a friend) for the incandescently brilliant and charming and humble Eleanor Catton, who read from and spoke about her novel The Luminaries, published 2013. She was 28 when she won the Man Booker for that book, a year older than I am now ( Read more... )

-- Hello, My Name Is Stephen Glass, and I’m Sorry - Hanna Rosin, The New Republic, Nov. 10, 2014 ( Read more... )

-- Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview - Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, Oct. 31, 2014 ( Read more... )

-- Emancipation - Casey Cep, Aeon Magazine, Oct. 28, 2013 ( Read more... )