Crime reporting from Hawthorne, Franklin, Twain, Hurston, Lincoln, Capote, and more
My latest Daily Beast recommendation: Harold Schechter’s fascinating True Crime: An American Anthology.
My latest Daily Beast recommendation: Harold Schechter’s fascinating True Crime: An American Anthology.
James Hynes graced us with some Halloween picks a couple years back. Now he recommends more spooky delights.
My friend Marie Mockett, whose amazing novel is out from Graywolf next year, gets a nod in Best American Essays 2008.
New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman rushed to read, translate, and publish Le Clézio’s work “while people still remember his name.”
The three National Book Award shortlisters I’ve read (& admired): Hemon, Robinson, and Mathiessen.