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Big Brother Book Club: The Professor and the Madwoman
Heading downtown on the 1, we spotted a man engrossed in <em><a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea”>Wide Sargasso...
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The Flâneur in Fiction: Great Books About Wandering the City
Earlier this week, in a piece I wrote about Jean Rhys at the Paris Review, I imagined walking with the author through Cambridge, London, Paris, and New York. In Rhys’ metropolitan novels – Quartet...
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Staff Picks: Flavorwire’s Favorite Cultural Things This Week
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers each recommend the cultural object or...
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10 Impressive Uses of Borrowed Characters in Literature
Kim Newman, whose latest book, Johnny Alucard, is out now, tells us: “In the Anno Dracula series, I’ve made use not only of characters and situations appropriated from Bram Stoker’s novel but a host of...
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Read This Before This: 10 Great Books Based on Other Great Books
Literature is a never-ending, overlapping, sometimes circular conversation — between writers, between readers, between books themselves. Especially when viewed from a vantage, and despite what Vonnegut...
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28 Feminist Writers Recommend Books Every Man Should Read
The leaves turn, the air gets colder, and a publication devoted to men makes a list of “80 Books Every Man Should Read” that has just one female writer on it. It’s just one slight in a list that’s...
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50 Essential Literary Biographies
Literary biography is a hugely significant, if often overlooked, enterprise. Today, much of what we know about the authors we admire is filtered through an ocean of online mini-biographies, nearly all...
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50 Great Novels About Madness
Not so much into March Madness? Well, perhaps you should look at it another way. March is the perfect month for reading books about madness — it is a transitional time, after all, possessed of both...
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50 Great Books About Deliciously Bad Women
What is it about bad girls that is so alluring? Maybe it’s the seized power they signify, or the agency their badness implies, or just the comebacks and leather jackets, but I always love the “bad”...
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30 Photos of Famous Authors in Epic Hats
Recently, I saw this hilarious photo of author Bohumil Hrabal tweeted by New Directions. In it, the author sits outside at his typewriter with a gruff look on his face, wearing possibly one of the best...
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