by October Gallery
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host on Wednesday theorized that the book is really Americans’ “favorite novel to say is their favorite novel when someone asks them.” Kimmel’s team asked folks…
Why do we continually give second, third ― seemingly infinite ― chances to brilliant men who have done wrong? This is a good, necessary question; it’s a question that is…
“Humbert Humbert tried hard to be good,” the protagonist of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita attests, referring to himself in the third person. ”Really and truly, he did.” By the end of…
It has been almost two decades since Janet Fitch published her debut novel, White Oleander, about a girl separated from her parents and thrust into the grueling American foster system.…
Souza previously announced the book in May. Set for an Oct. 16 release, it will “vividly show where we are as a country contrasted with where we were,” he said…
J.K. Rowling had a good laugh on Tuesday when President Donald Trump tweeted about his expert writing skills. The president criticized the press for “pouring over” his tweets “looking for…
The star of Jordy Rosenberg’s debut novel, Confessions of the Fox, might be familiar to you already. Jack Sheppard, a legendary 18th century pickpocket and jailbreaker, operated for only about…
Mary Wings knew she desired women way before she knew the word lesbian. When she finally learned the term at 21 years old, her first thought was how funny it…
Like so many early adolescents in the latter half of the American Century, I hid under the bedspread with that canary-yellow paperback of famous self-gratification. The first copy of Portnoy’s…
May 22 (Reuters) – Author Philip Roth, who was both hailed and derided for laying bare the neuroses and obsessions that haunted the modern Jewish-American experience, died on Tuesday at…