Writer, M.D.: Prose at the tip of the scalpel, from Atul Gawande, Oliver...
BY LINDSAY GOLDWERT What kind of mettle must a person posess to hold a scalpel over a breathing human body, anaesthetized and vulnerable, and to make that first bloody cut? How do doctors see...
View ArticleVladimir Putin would like you to read a book: Why his proposal for a "Russian...
“Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed,” said the poet Osip Mandelstam, who became the victim of his own morbid prediction in 1938, sent to die in a Soviet prison camp for writing...
View ArticleSantorum vs. Obama vs. God: Why liberals are always losing the religion...
Rick Santorum is not only on a winning streak, picking up victories in Tuesday’s Republican presidential primaries in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri – he’s also on a well-publicized crusade against...
View ArticleWestminster dog show may not love them, but Nabokov did: Dachshunds, adored...
Today, the Wesminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens in New York, but dachshund owners like myself aren’t holding their breath – our beloved hot dogs, our weiners, our salchichas, whatever you call them,...
View ArticleThe Composites: New Tumblr imagines your favorite book characters in the flesh
Have you ever wished you could just see how the characters in your favorite books looked? Always wished to meet “Great Expectations’” Mr. Wemmick, with his delightfully rendered post-office mouth, in...
View ArticleYale University Press introduces new online forum for works of translation
The Yale University Press has recently introduced an online component – www.worldrepublicofletters.org – to complement its Margellos World Republic of Letters, an initiative designed to engage with...
View ArticleEast Harlem gets its first bookstore
Note: This is a modified version of an article that appears in today's Daily News. Only Page Views has the full interview with Ms. Anaya Cerda, proprietor of La Casa Azul Bookstore. Aurora Anaya-Cerda...
View ArticleOde to the endangered flip phone
I am a little like Don Quixote, toting decrepit armor and tilting at windmills. Or, at least, that’s what everyone staring at me in my dormitory elevator seems to think when I pull out my Verizon LG...
View ArticleYoung adult books are full of swearing, BYU study says: And characters who...
You may be happy that your teenager is reading. You may also be surprised to learn just how profane young adult literature really is. According to a study by Sarah Coyne, a professor of social...
View ArticleKeeping the literary past at arm's length: New study finds writers less and...
BY PETER ENZINNA The past, a new study finds, is slipping away. A new study by professors from Dartmouth College and the University of Wisconsin attempts to break literature down to its basic elements...
View ArticleAre hipsters saving the soul of America?
Readers of this blog know that I am suspicious of the hipster species, especially its gradual, determined conquest of Brooklyn. After we declared that fair borough officially dead, The Atlantic Wire's...
View ArticleHappy Fourth of July!: Celebrate with activities from Amy Sedaris
Happy Fourth of July! May your holiday be limited to just one viewing of Will Smith beating up aliens and many more hours of heart-stopping explosions. (Photo: Daily News Staff) Amy Sedaris’ book...
View ArticleYour tour guide to unexplored literary territory: Book Riot's 'Start Here' to...
Always wanted to dive into a David Foster Wallace novel, but never been able to choose which one? The good folks at Book Riot are in the process of funding a Kickstarter project to help steer readers...
View ArticleHave our books become too long?
China has a one-child policy. Call it draconian, but we readers need something similar, because our books are too long, while our time to read is all too short. Take Robert Caro’s recent “Passage of...
View ArticleTwitter: Changing life for writers 140 characters at a time
BY CHRISTOPHER YOUNG Creation through limitation is a concept that has long been familiar to writers. We see it through the persistent use of ancient poetic forms such as haiku, as well as the...
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