Robert Frost house vandals sentenced to poetic punishment

By Henry Freedland at 4:04 PM on June 11, 2008

It's not like it's a new issue. That poetry affects daily life is, almost literally, the first rule in the book. (You know, Plato's book, from 2400 years ago.) In his Republic, he expelled poets because they lie and lead to immoral behavior. ...  read more

Watch the trailer for new Hunter S. Thompson doc

By Julia Reidy at 5:30 PM on June 6, 2008

On Independence Day, a film exploring the life of one of the most staunchly independent thinkers in U.S. history will be released in theaters. Gonzo, the highly anticipated forthcoming documentary about the late journalistic and literary legend Hunter S. Thompson...  read more

Thurston Moore and Co. write the book on No Wave

By Henry Freedland at 12:36 PM on June 6, 2008

Thurston Moore's work is never done. Co-founding and frontmanning Sonic Youth wasn't enough. Neither was composing for film, curating shows, directing music videos...  read more

From Airport Hell: A High Flying Novel

By Tripp Reade at 5:26 PM on June 5, 2008

No one ever had more carry-on baggage than Bennie Ford, the narrator of Jonathan Miles’ sparkling debut novel, Dear American Airlines. Enough, it turns out, to fill a book. Immured in Chicago’s O’Hare airport en route to his long-estranged daughter’s wedding...  read more

David Sedaris talks to Jon Stewart, unleashes Flames

By Henry Freedland at 3:34 PM on June 4, 2008

Author, humorist and North Carolinian ex-pat David Sedaris unleashed upon the world another collection of self-deprecating witticisms yesterday with When You Are Engulfed In Flames. The book of essays includes several pieces that will be familiar to fans of The New Yorker and NPR's This American Life, for which Sedaris is a regular contributor. ...  read more

Lewis Black

By Travis Nichols at 4:58 PM on June 3, 2008

Me of Little Faith falls somewhere between satire and memoir into a...  read more

Dana Jennings

By Jon Langford at 8:58 PM on May 27, 2008

Last June, as a guest of Marty Stuart, I got to sing a couple of my songs...  read more

The Unscientific Method

By Brian Merchant at 12:06 PM on May 15, 2008

Fresh out of med school, Rivka Galchen made an odd move for a newly christened M.D....  read more

Keith Gessen

By Charles McNair at 1:48 PM on May 13, 2008

Sad young literary men may find Mark, Keith and Sam familiar...  read more

Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

By Gary Jucha at 11:39 AM on May 13, 2008

I am often drawn to a novel by the story behind the story...  read more

Ace Atkins

By Ravi Howard at 11:37 AM on May 13, 2008

It’s 1954, and the attorney-general-elect of Alabama has been assassinated...  read more

Theodore Judson

By Lon S. Cohen at 11:32 AM on May 13, 2008

Famine! War! Plagues to both man and metal! A virulent and insane Emperor who...  read more

Steven Kurutz

By John Christian Lembach at 11:24 AM on May 13, 2008

Writer Steven Kurutz rides alongside Glen Carroll, the Mick Jagger of...  read more

Sloane Crosley

By Montana Wojczuk at 11:20 AM on May 13, 2008

Sloane Crosley’s debut, I Was Told There’d be Cake, is a charming collection of...  read more

Steven Galloway

By Carolyn Roosevelt at 5:50 PM on May 5, 2008

What do you do when it’s dangerous to cross the street, but that’s where...  read more

Dr. Anne Paris

By Christy Sasser at 2:28 PM on May 1, 2008

What is an artist’s greatest fear? The paralyzing enemy called creative block...  read more

Rabih Alameddine

By Elizabeth Dewberry at 6:44 PM on April 21, 2008

Listen. Allow me to be your god. Let me take you...  read more

Martin Amis

By Matthew Teague at 5:27 PM on April 21, 2008

In the earliest days of our new epoch, as the shock of September 11 subsided...  read more

Nathaniel Rich

By Max Arbes at 1:04 PM on April 15, 2008

There is little beyond exuberance to betray The Mayor's Tongue as a debut...  read more

Tara Yellen

By Holly Haworth at 12:21 PM on April 15, 2008

In the film Waking Life, Louis Mackey poses...  read more