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Scary Literary Fiction for People Who Hate Horror

Scary Literary Fiction for People Who Hate Horror

But still want some chills and thrills in this, our spookiest season

By Emily Temple | October 17, 2017

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

"I got a little bored after a time. I mean, the road seemed to be awfully long."

By Emily Temple | October 16, 2017

Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's <em>Invisible Cities</em>

Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

"Elsewhere is a negative mirror."

By Emily Temple | October 13, 2017

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

Marmoreal, Uncooked, Inarticulate, Pimpled, Unrefined, Limp

By Emily Temple | October 12, 2017

The 2017 MacArthur

The 2017 MacArthur "Genius" Grant Winners in Literature

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jesmyn Ward, and Annie Baker: Now Official Geniuses

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

and your knees become apples, too?"">"When you paint apples do you feel that your breasts
and your knees become apples, too?"

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

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By Emily Temple | October 6, 2017

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to Kazuo Ishiguro

By Emily Temple | October 5, 2017

10 Tales of Manuscript Burning (And Some That Survived)

By Emily Temple | October 4, 2017

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

The only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States

By Emily Temple | October 3, 2017

Read William S. Burroughs's Hate Letter to Truman Capote

Read William S. Burroughs's Hate Letter to Truman Capote

Can One Writer Curse Another for Life?

By Emily Temple | October 2, 2017

Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

"I think I don't believe very much in psychotherapy for creative people."

By Emily Temple | September 29, 2017

Read 10 of the Best Stories Ever Published in <em>Playboy</em>

Read 10 of the Best Stories Ever Published in Playboy

From J.G. Ballard to Gabriel García Márquez to Bharati Mukherjee

By Emily Temple | September 29, 2017

Literary Highlights from Everyone's Favorite Wedding Column

Literary Highlights from Everyone's Favorite Wedding Column

Or: Old Gossip is Still Good Gossip

By Emily Temple | September 28, 2017

10 Songs for J.G. Ballard's Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London

10 Songs for J.G. Ballard's Post-Apocalyptic Vision of a Future London

Playlist for a Classic Novel: The Drowned World

By Emily Temple | September 27, 2017

8 Notable Attempts to Hack the <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller List

8 Notable Attempts to Hack the New York Times Bestseller List

Surprise: Republican Politicians Also Cheat at Book Sales

By Emily Temple | September 26, 2017

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