What Roger Ebert Knew About Writing
"If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear."
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"If you pay attention to the movies they will tell you what people desire and fear."
The comic-book franchise's attempts to get hip included turning Lois Lane black.
Five books the mysterious ad exec should read, with an optional Old Fashioned in hand.
Author Aatish Taseer, a chronicler of young Muslims, shares his favorite Naipaul passage.
The author talks about climate change, capitalism, and the other circa-2013 concerns that underpin his award-winning novels about "the solar system in the next few centuries."
Read along with our Twitter book club for poetry month.
Comedy vet Tony Hendra's latest venture, The Final Edition, like its competitor The Onion, parodies newsgatherers and world events to make very-real points.
Choose between one of two anthologies for our Twitter book club to read.
Even the greats of modern literature had awkward phases.
Novelist Jim Crace, whose prose has been analyzed by mathematicians for its rhythm, learned his technique from the childhood counting game 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor.'
The author, born 100 years ago, shocked science-fiction readers with his extreme depictions of other worlds—and his rumored belief that he sometimes lived in one.
Send in nominations for what our Twitter book club should read next.
In 2000, the Nigerian author told The Atlantic he wished to inspire voiceless peoples to share their own histories and create a global "balance of stories."
Ginsberg was sloppy, Vonnegut was giggly, and none of Frank McCourt's students ever thought he would become a famous writer.
And now it's gone.
Nine letters of admiration sent between writers, and one scathing letter of scorn
Author Steven Barthelme shares how he came to appreciate 'Lady With Lapdog.'
This St. Patrick's Day, get acquainted with Irish author Flann O'Brien's 1939 book of stories within stories within stories.
Reading a passage about the unresolved desire to fill the empty spaces in a life helped the author understand her own grief.
A few of these 11 writers are camera-shy; others just lived before the age of film.
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
