• Biography

    Reading Lists

    A Brief Survey of Famous Authors and Their Favorite Cocktails (and Colognes!)

    By Timothy Schaffert  August 3, 2021
    Remembrances

    In Memory of My Parents, the Late Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha

    By Rodrigo Garcia  August 2, 2021
    The Hub

    “Brother, you’ve got a fan now!” Read a letter from Nina Simone to Langston Hughes.

    By Walker Caplan  July 29, 2021
    The Hub

    The only known recording of J.D. Salinger’s voice will be cremated with the woman who stole it.

    By Walker Caplan  July 29, 2021
    The Hub

    “There is an inclination to punish women.” Elizabeth Hardwick on writing while female.

    By Walker Caplan  July 27, 2021
    Jane Austen

    How an 18th-Century Cookbook Offers Glimpses of Jane Austen’s Domestic Life

    By Julienne Gehrer   July 26, 2021
    Incarceration

    On Molly Williams, One of America’s First Female Firefighters

    By Jaime Lowe  July 26, 2021
    Modernism

    The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

    By Richard Zenith  July 22, 2021
    American History

    How Vaudeville Told the Story of America… to Americans

    By Geoffrey Hilsabeck  July 22, 2021
    Corruption

    The Corrupt Arrogance of William Barr

    By Elie Honig  July 19, 2021
    Aesthetics

    How Oscar Wilde Won Over the American Press

    By Nicholas Frankel  July 19, 2021
    The Hub

    For the first time, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries will be available to the public.

    By Walker Caplan  July 15, 2021
    Literary History

    Shirley Jackson on Navigating Literary Fame Alongside Financial Uncertainty

    By Shirley Jackson  July 14, 2021
    Comedy

    Why Is Jerry Seinfeld One of the Most Successful Stand-Up Comedians of All Time?

    By David Steinberg  July 14, 2021
    Incarceration

    Looking for Love in a Prison Cell

    By Elizabeth Greenwood  July 12, 2021
    Friendship

    When Franklin Pierce Saved Nathaniel Hawthorne from Financial Ruin

    By Gary Ginsberg  July 8, 2021
    Biography

    Extractor of Secrets, Discloser of Secrets: On the Complex Role of the Biographer

    By Debra Dean  July 1, 2021
    Literary Icons

    Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

    By Charles McGrath  June 29, 2021
    Literary Connection

    Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and
    Heidi James

    By Heather Martin  June 28, 2021
    American Entertainment

    The Humble Beginnings of the American Circus

    By Les Standiford  June 24, 2021
    The Writing Life

    John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Move over, tea controversy—turns out Jane Austen’s brother was an abolitionist.

    By Walker Caplan  June 16, 2021
    Letters

    Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway

    By Janet Somerville  June 16, 2021
    Short story writers

    Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel… Even a Novel?

    By Benjamin Hedin  June 16, 2021
    Scams

    The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters

    By John Tresch  June 16, 2021
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