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Go Ask Alice…About Her Man Booker Prize
Attention please: The New York Times’ Arts Beat reports Alice Munro has won one of literature’s most heavy-hitting awards, the International Man Booker Prize. Munro is one Canada’s most celebrated...
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Flavorpill’s Fall Book Preview By Category
Labor Day may have marked the unofficial end of summer, but last week’s long weekend also marked the beginning of the publishing world’s fall book rush. With dozens of new titles hitting shelves in the...
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How to Rewrite a Story Without Ruining the Original
Although Hollywood has made a business out of converting classic stories into vacuous, high-def shells of their former incarnations, the literary world has been somewhat better about preserving and...
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Famous, Retold Stories in Literature
Besides being an accomplished pediatrician, Chris Adrian was named one of the New Yorker‘s “20 Under 40” fiction writers last summer, and is also is pursuing a master’s degree at Harvard’s Divinity...
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10 Contemporary American Essayists You Should Be Reading Right Now
Today marks the release of celebrated novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson’s newest collection of essays, When I Was a Child I Read Books. We’ve been excited about this book for a while now, so if...
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American Ladies Dominate This Year’s Orange Prize Shortlist
After yesterday’s strange book prize news — ie, the fact that the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to absolutely no one — we’re happy to have much nicer things to report today, namely the fact...
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Madeline Miller Wins the Orange Prize for Fiction
Madeline Miller should be feeling pretty good right about now. Not only does she have the distinction of beating out serious competition from more established writers like Ann Patchett and Cynthia...
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The 25 Greatest Essay Collections of All Time
Today marks the release of Aleksandar Hemon’s excellent book of personal essays, The Book of My Lives, which we loved, and which we’re convinced deserves a place in the literary canon. To that end, we...
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Read This Before This: 10 Great Books Based on Other Great Books
Literature is a never-ending, overlapping, sometimes circular conversation — between writers, between readers, between books themselves. Especially when viewed from a vantage, and despite what Vonnegut...
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10 Must-Read Books for July 2016
The motliest month of the year, at least in terms of genre and theme, July still proves it’s possible to escape the hell of the “beach read,” that virus of literary culture that spreads to every...
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Cynthia Ozick’s ‘Critics, Monsters, Fanatics’ is Brilliant, Maddening
Of the three literary types listed in the title of Cynthia Ozick’s Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays, the author hews closest to the “fanatic,” or at least that’s what she told...
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