Five novels of ideas, courtesy of Calvin Baker
Calvin Baker recommends 5 novels depicting a new world order. Among them: books by Bolaño, Ellison, and Ishiguro.
Calvin Baker recommends 5 novels depicting a new world order. Among them: books by Bolaño, Ellison, and Ishiguro.
The 101 Reasons to Stop Writing calendar should fulfill all your demotivation needs for the coming year.
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 . . .