I don’t remember seeing pictures of my Great Aunt Louise until recently, but she has haunted me since I turned fourteen. That year my granny pulled me aside to warn me I was old enough now to be vigilant about madness: my own, my sister’s, and my future children’s. She described the descent of her own little sister, Louise, a . . .
A publisher believes even dead female authors have to be good-looking to sell books now.
Alix Kates Shulman discusses her satirical novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, with Nextbook editor Sara Ivry. The book is reissued this month for its 35th anniversary.
In Bookforum, Peter Terzian praises Nathan Englander’s “harrowing and brilliant first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases,” a book “without a traditional ending.”
Deep Linking amasses links to a host of unusual NYPL collections, including one devoted to Shelley and His Circle.