February 11, 2013, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the death of poet Sylvia Plath, truly an American master. To know Plath is to understand her, and with her unabridged journals, you can find your way into her dark mind.
Teju Cole exposes history and identity through the mundane, as a walk through New York City offers profound wisdom to the outspoken narrator of his debut novel, Open City.
When a Nobel Prize-winning poet asks a frustrated, unemployed expat with no detective experience to act as sleuth on an urgent mission, he just can't say no. So begins Ampuero's tale of politics, poetry, and love, The Neruda Case.
When a terrible thing happens at an all-boys prep school, friends find themselves grappling with guilt and questionable loyalties. Author Jenny Hubbard talks about her novel, Paper Covers Rock, and her years as a boarding-school teacher.
In the winter of 1972, biographer Nancy Milford met Norma Millay, sister of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Over the course of the next few years, Milford was granted access to the vast archive of Edna's personal belongings and began piecing together the life of one of America's most brilliant poets.
An Ominous, Sensual Debut: Jamie Quatro’s I Want to Show You More
Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat
Meg Wolitzer's The Interestings: A New York Epic
A New Tale from Paulo Coelho: Manuscript Found in Accra
A Modern Classic That Endures: Robert Penn Warren's All the King’s Men
Alice Munro
Barbara Kingsolver
George Saunders
Haruki Murakami
Abigail Pollak
Allyson Pearl
Andrew Agudo
Jen Marshall
Joe Muscolino
Rita D. Jacobs
