Book news and gossip.
There are things to be said about this year’s National Book Award nominations—namely, about the nefarious exclusion of Jonathan Safran…
Beer and loathing, college-style.
Jeffrey Steingarten is back, and hungrier than ever.
Test your knowledge of Mariel and Sarah, memoirists.
Edmund White’s classic turns 20.
A highly biased guide to this weekend’s festival.
Watching and being watched at Hugo House.
The three staffers directly responsible for making this year’s Bookfest the best in recent memory lost their jobs last week….
In addition to drinking less, being nicer to fat people, and reading to completion at least one book by Salman…
See Jake look.
The eighth issue of McSweeney’s, which came out last weekend, is beguiling, bighearted, and as beautifully constructed as a newly…
Lessons in downtown life from a former office lackey.
The blinding light of haute couture.
Dorothy Allison is a short, sturdy, strident dyke known mostly for a novel called Bastard Out of Carolina. A coming-of-age…
It’s Monday morning, and a thousand Seattle-area persons of size have crowded into a fourth-floor Westin Hotel conference room. Sarah…
Sex, drugs, and death before college.
How to make the perfect cheese ball.
It’s Princess Superstar.
And nine other things you should know when buying rare books.
