Bolaño's Una novelita lumpen At the beginning of September, the fall semester always looks endless to me, like a river whose mouth ...

Recently I was reading the New York Review of Books ' online blog and saw that they had posted the following poem , lineated prose re...

"There are books that inspire fear. Real fear. More than books they seem like time bombs or like taxidermied animals that'll go for...

Boris Akunin (© RIA Novosti. Ilia Pitalev) "[Writers are] engineers of the human soul." I'd never read this quote befor...

Congratulations to this year's winners of the Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music ! I was especially gladdened by three of the...

Last Friday I taught my final Theory and Practice of Fiction class of the semester (or quarter-and-a-half; this and its poetry and creative...