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Smell it on ME!

Short of a life spent in solitary confinement, the experience of humiliation is inevitable…

Catch Hearts

Catch Hearts

‘Pseudonyms are rarely straightforward’

Amanda Sigler: Scandalous Ulysses

Amanda Sigler: Scandalous Ulysses

If some books are good because they don’t sell, others are just as likely to be judged good because they do…

If some books are good because they don’t sell, others are just as likely to be judged good because they do…

Why Elif Batuman doesn’t read reviews

Why Elif Batuman doesn’t read reviews

The Ballardian Image

‘The List’ by Adelaide Docx

Short story:

‘The List’ by Adelaide Docx

Missing the hint of lemmings

Ten Million Hopeful Scribblers

Ten Million Hopeful Scribblers

‘The novel as film script is about as far as it is possible to get from many of the ideas at the root of the literary canon’

Poets are rock stars

Poets are rock stars

“The public wants to believe in Santa Claus and the movie stars”

“The public wants to believe in Santa Claus and the movie stars”

‘It occurs to me, though, that my generation of writers, editors, directors, and others in the arts may never learn to read the Web on its own terms’

‘Too sexy for Cosmo’

‘We are the case for books’

We don’t know if she rode, hunted, played tennis or golf!

We don’t know if she rode, hunted, played tennis or golf!

Bob Stein discusses his integral role in the prehistory of online publishing and e-books

Read Eat, Pray, Love. Pitch.