Brad Neely's Wizard People, Dear Reader: Deconstructing Harry Potter and the Hero's Journey

By Michael Saba at 8:30 AM on July 14, 2009

Brad Neely is the face of comedy in the internet age...  read more

Paste Presents: The Harry Potter Takeover

By Paste Staff at 8:00 AM on July 14, 2009

It's been a dozen years since the first of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books debuted...  read more

Lil Wayne is a Bullfrog: Paste Puts the Patronus Charm on Nine Musical Artists

By Paste Staff at 7:45 AM on July 14, 2009

In Harry Potter’s world, a patronus is an animal protector created by a spell. Harry’s patronus is a stag...  read more

The Super-Impossible Brain-Busting Harry Potter Trivia Quiz

By Michael Saba at 7:30 AM on July 14, 2009

Think you're steeped in the wizard lore of the Harry Potter books? Think that you can recall the trivia and minutia of the Harry Potter universe...  read more

Of Potter and Proust

By Jesse Jarnow at 7:15 AM on July 14, 2009

Once this birthday passes, I’m sure I’ll be fine. I’m not usually susceptible to believing wild generalizations, but...  read more

Harry Potter in the Paste Headlines

By Paste Staff at 6:45 AM on July 14, 2009

Don't know if you've heard of this Harry Potter guy or not, but he's kind of a big deal...  read more

Eggers Together: The First-Ever Joint Interview with Dave and Toph Eggers

By Charles McNair at 8:00 AM on May 14, 2009

The cold stare of Dr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey dominates the cover...  read more

The Paste 7 - May 09

By Paste at 1:45 PM on May 4, 2009

Our favorite entertaining bits of whatever. ...  read more

Emergent: Marc Fitten

By Charles McNair at 2:30 PM on May 1, 2009

The year’s best new European writer may very well be an American. He’s Marc Fitten, age 34. Born in Brooklyn to Panamanian parents and raised in Da Bronx...  read more

Catching Up With...Watchmen illustrator Dave Gibbons

By Matt Goodlett at 8:00 AM on March 5, 2009

There's a tiny detail in one of the scenes from Watchmen that's indicative of the graphic novel's larger complexity...  read more

Ben Greenman: Killing E-mail One Postcard at a Time

By Charles McNair at 12:00 PM on November 20, 2008

Ben Greenman wants you to write...  read more

The Best Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books and Games of 2008

By Paste Staff at 8:00 AM on November 17, 2008

Let’s be frank: any best-of list says more about the people who
 assembled it than it does about a particular year...  read more

Signs of Life 2008: The Best Books We Read This Year

By Stephen King, Amy Sedaris, Clyde Edgerton, Daniel Wallace, Elizabeth Gilbert, <br>Hillary Jordan, Laura Tohe, Roy Blount Jr., Tom Bissell, Thomas Cahill,<br> Charles McNair at 7:59 AM on November 17, 2008

For the second consecutive year, Paste asked a constellation of authors to share with us the books they admired most in the past year. We offer their thoughts, musings and endorsements with no further prologue—after all, you’ve got some reading to do. ...  read more

Dead Celebrity Author of the Month: Roberto Bolaño

By Travis Nichols

 at 3:00 PM on November 4, 2008

Poet and novelist Roberto Bolaño wrote about strangulations, stabbings, rapes, drug deals, pistol-whippings and love gone wrong...  read more

Chris Adrian: Word Doc

By Charles McNair at 10:00 AM on October 15, 2008

Chris Adrian has earned a B.A. in English from the University of Florida. He has an M.D. from Eastern Virginia Medical School. He’s earning a new degree in a pediatric hematology/oncology program in San Francisco. He’s two years from a degree from...  read more

Catching Up With... Chuck Palahniuk

By Josh Jackson at 7:00 AM on September 26, 2008

When a young Chuck Palahniuk pitched his novel Invisible Monsters to publishers, it was rejected because it was too disturbing. His response was to fill his next novel, Fight Club, with even more disturbing and violent events and dub himself a writer of “transgressional fiction”...  read more

My History of Violence

By John H. Richardson at 9:00 AM on September 22, 2008

When I was a cub reporter starting out at the Albuquerque Tribune, I found a report in the police blotter about a pair of 16-year-old lovers who gassed themselves in a car. I about choked on how great a story it was, did a little reporting, found out they did it in a...  read more

Shock and Awww

By Josh Jackson at 4:40 PM on September 20, 2008

We live in a brutal world. Violent, degrading and tragic events disturb everyday existence, just as they have since the dawn of time. Or as novelist Chuck Palahniuk puts it, “Crap has always happened, crap is happening and crap will continue to happen.” ...  read more

Saša Stanišic: Magic in Motion

By Charles McNair at 9:00 AM on August 15, 2008

"There's nothing there. Just sheep and me." Saša Stanišic happily describes the Swiss setting where he's retreated to write. One can't blame him for seeking a quiet place. The war in Bosnia still rings in his ears...  read more

Lost (and found) in Translation

By Gary Gach at 12:00 AM on August 8, 2008

A statistic to consider: About 50 percent of world literature derives from English, but less than 3 percent of English-language publications are translations into English from the rest of the world. And that figure is closer to 0.3 percent if you consider only adult literature and poetry...  read more