The Death of the Solitary Author
On writing in the digital age.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Authors—once permitted to sit in their hovel and emerge once a year for a writer’s festival—have become social entities.
Authors
Perpetual Bride and Cultural Icon: Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel
The source of her appeal.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: She lived a long, well publicized life. She knew and loved, was married to or had affairs with, some of the most famous men of her time. Now, decades after her death, she is still, if not famous, then legendary.
William Seabrook, Author, Adventurer, and Fine Young Cannibal
You are what you eat.
I thought it might be interesting to find one anecdote to best encapsulate the strange life of William Seabrook. But, then, his life was so full of incident and he knew so many of the kind of people who are ornaments to any reminiscence that it seemed too daunting a task.
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
Happily never after.
A deliciously macabre read for those ready to make their childhood memories squirm.
Adam Gopnik
Empire state of mind.
The New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik meditates on Manhattan, marriage, and a life of letters.
In Conversation With Author Chris Kraus
Kraus on feminism, Kathy Acker, and life after Dick.
In her latest release and first biography, author Chris Kraus delves into the life of an admired peer, the avant-garde writer and artist Kathy Acker.
The Odyssey of Madeleine Thien
Canadian novelist.
Over her 20-year-career, Madeleine Thien has rooted her storytelling in the personal and the political of Asian communities. In her latest novel, music became the point of departure.
David Sedaris
Comic relief.
The famed humourist looks back on the highs and lows of his journey from meth-addicted deadbeat to literary rock star.
Wade Davis
A rare breed.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: “You throw yourself on the benevolence of the world, believing some kind of wisdom will come of it.” —Canadian explorer Wade Davis
