“Good taste means nothing if you can’t sell a book.”

“Happy endings are just about a question of the place where you choose to stop the story. In a life, there’s lots of moments when you could say, Stop right there.”

“The pleasure that comes from reading Flanner’s prose is often accompanied by a kind of relief that here, finally, is an actual adult.”

Reading Portis for the first time required a significant adjustment to all my previously gathered knowledge of what a person can or should put in a novel if they want it to be good.

What is lost when Nadine Gordimer's personal library accidentally winds up in boxes on the street?

What is lost when Nadine Gordimer's personal library accidentally winds up in boxes on the street?

Mark O’Connell’s eerily prescient new book, ’Notes From an Apocalypse,’ looks at the preppers and survivalists who’ve been ready for the end since the beginning.