Browsing: Words
Asked, late in his life, what On the Road was actually about, Jack Kerouac replied, “It was really a story about two…
In one of the early chapters of Reading Comics, Douglas Wolk talks about a sect of comics fandom that he dubs…
Since 1970, British writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks has been publishing his accounts of the intriguing pathologies he’s encountered during…
No one observes shit more wryly than French cartoonists—read Lewis Trondheim and realize the truth. French Canadians are close, though,…
The Dig managed to set up a call with noted author and screenwriter Paul Auster while he was waking up in a…
The death penalty is wicked hot right now. Law-and-order types whooped it up for the 1,000th execution of the country’s…
In Laila Lalami’s debut novel, one of her four feature characters, Halima, despairs when her young son miraculously saves her…
Extremely loud and incredibly stinky: The celebrated author faces fatherhood Susan McCarty For a man who has appeared twice on…
On art, animal testicles and how his teen gang knows more about writing than you do Sue Bell Dave Eggers’…
Toward the end of Steve Almond’s new story collection, The Evil B.B. Chow, the author treats us to the following heart-to-heart:…