Tara Yellen

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

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

Tobias Wolff

By Adina Fleming at 10:46 AM on April 11, 2008

Tobias Wolff’s gift as a storyteller is simplicity, letting the sparse beauty...  read more

The Editors of McSweeney's

By Doug Monroe at 4:05 PM on April 1, 2008

The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes will have you laughing...  read more

Jhumpa Lahiri

By John Holman at 2:03 PM on April 1, 2008

Emotionally intricate and exquisitely crafted, Unaccustomed Earth's descriptions...  read more

Beth Ann Fennelly

By David Kirby at 3:44 PM on March 27, 2008

Beth Ann Fennelly’s best poems are as noisy as a rat in a coffee can...  read more

Tim Delaney

By Todd Deery at 3:56 PM on March 18, 2008

Make extra room on the bookshelf for another cultural-studies...  read more

Marybeth Hamilton

By Charles McNair at 10:19 AM on March 18, 2008

Is the Mississippi Delta really the birthplace of...  read more

Chuck Klosterman preps debut novel, Downtown Owl

By Tiago Moura at 2:31 PM on March 6, 2008

The imaginative journalist/author who brought music and pop-culture junkies clever works such as Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs (2003) and Killing Yourself to Live (2005) gave a talk last night in New York, in addition to reading from his forthcoming novel, Downtown Owl. This will be the author's first (fully) fictional work, and it's set for release on September 16. Related links: A.V. Club: Chuck Klosterman interview The Simon: Is Chuck Klosterman his own worst metaphor? PopMatters: The Rural Hipster — Why We Need Chuck Klosterman Got news tips for Paste? E-mail news@pastemagazine.com. ...  read more

Barry Hannah

By Charles Frazier at 3:09 PM on March 4, 2008

Over the years, I’ve heard many Southern writers of my generation...  read more

David Shields

By Christine Ziemba at 5:26 PM on February 29, 2008

Did you know that the human ability to exactly duplicate foreign sounds...  read more

Random House abandons DRM for audiobooks

By Tiago Moura at 5:59 PM on February 26, 2008

Random House Audio announced earlier this week that it will no longer require a registered (DRM) encryption of its digitally sold audiobooks. The decision to make all audio books DRM-free came after the major publishing company tested the sale of new audiobooks in watermarked MP3 format through eMusic.com and found that all online pirated versions of the titles originated from cracked DRMs and CD rips. The largest online audiobook store Audible.com, however, sells DRM versions of their audiobooks as a matter of policy. According to BoingBoing.net, Random House's announcement and Amazon.com's recent acquisition of Audible may cause the popular online...  read more

Otto Penzler [Editor]

By John Hood at 3:17 PM on February 21, 2008

The story starts like this: While thumbing through some...  read more

Peter Carey

By Andrea Hinds at 5:38 PM on February 19, 2008

It’s the social revolution of the ’60s and ’70s. Seven-year-old Che...  read more

Mark Helprin

By David Langness at 9:45 AM on February 14, 2008

I’ve spent 35 years as a reader and literary critic, and still, to this day, I have never...  read more

Sarah Boxer [Editor]

By Charles McNair at 4:41 PM on February 12, 2008

Sarah Boxer’s new book offers luddites the possibility of redemption...  read more

Dan Kennedy

By Steven Horowitz at 12:18 PM on February 11, 2008

Dan Kennedy thought he landed his rock ’n’ roll dream job as Atlantic Records’...  read more

Nathaniel Mackey

By Eli Evans at 10:57 AM on January 31, 2008

Reviews of Bass Cathedral—the fourth installment in Nathaniel Mackey’s...  read more

Cate Kennedy

By Tara Y. Coyt at 10:44 AM on January 31, 2008

The debut short-story collection by Australian writer Cate Kennedy...  read more

George Michael's expensive, tell-all book on the horizon

By Jeremy Goldmeier at 4:25 PM on January 18, 2008

It's already been a few years since George Michael celebrated his towering artistic accomplishments in A Different Story, his harrowing autobiographical documentary. But in the time since, a new gaggle of stars has risen from the murk of the UK pop scene to steal the tabloid headlines. What's a pop-culture giant to do? Looks like it's time for a bunker-busting, confessional autobiography. In what's being billed as one of the biggest publishing pacts in UK history, Michael has signed aboard HarperCollins to pen a "no-holds-barred" memoir on his freaky rise to fame. The AP tags the deal at $7 million...  read more

Charles Webb reveals book sequel to The Graduate

By Kasia Galazka at 11:54 PM on January 7, 2008

One of the most notorious cougars in contemporary literature and film is back in a new novel. Forty years after the Mike Nichols-directed film version of his book The Graduate, Charles Webb has written the sequel (which comes out in hardcover today), Home School. For those of you who need a refresher on one of cinema's finest moments, here's a plot summary for The Graduate. Surely that will jog those memories of a young, nervous Dustin Hoffman and the saucy Anne Bancroft from the 1967 classic. The sequel takes place in the 1970s when home-schooling was controversial. When Benjamin and...  read more