Díaz’s very own “Dominican Akira”
Junot Díaz tells Edwidge Danticat that he’s resuming work on a sci-fi novel set in an alternate U.S.
Junot Díaz tells Edwidge Danticat that he’s resuming work on a sci-fi novel set in an alternate U.S.
Great news: the stagehands get their deal, and Twain’s Is He Dead? will debut 12/9, shortly after his 162nd birthday.
This month I’m posting recipes and food-related stories from some writers I like. Today Joshua Ferris, whose Then We Came to the End has been named one of the New York Times’ ten best books of 2007, explains how to make a perfectly browned grilled cheese sandwich. I admired Ferris’ novel in Newsday last winter, and later was inspired by . . .
Doris Lessing’s bad back — a side-effect of osteoporosis? — will keep her from attending the Nobel investiture ceremony.
Brock Clarke on Muriel Spark: “What is it about the books you love that make you hate the people who don’t?”