We hope you're making time for a few literary adaptations in between summer blockbusters, moviegoers. Here are a couple I've rec...

I don’t expect much when I pick up a posthumous work of a great author. I expect even less when it’s the fourth, and final, posthumous ...

A gratuitous re-post from last year, but with some new additions:

We’ve mentioned Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” here . And we’ve drawn analogies between great painters and writing styles here . B...

One of my all-time favorite Hemingway stories is “ The Snows of Kilimanjaro .” You may recall this image from the story, from which i...

So when the title sounds like chick-lit, and the cover looks like chick-lit, you expect chick-lit, right? But I was actually pretty plea...

“After Shakespeare, my favorite poet is Dante. My favorite novelists are Proust and Tolstoy, closely followed by Scott Fitzgerald, a...

There’s been lots of talk about shrinking author advances lately, with the once-common $10,000 advances for mid-list writers being repl...

In A Moveable Feast  Hemingway calls Ezra Pound: “the man I liked and trusted the most as a critic then, the man who believed in th...

In this post we mentioned Sherwood Anderson’s influence on the generation of writers that followed him and that came to dominate the ...

I took six years of German growing up- even passing the AP test in high school. Unfortunately that didn’t fulfill the language require...

We don’t often talk politics here, but I know some of you writer-types are still smarting from the recent election. No, no, no, not...

Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea   was originally published in LIFE Magazine. They sent a photographer to Cuba to capture images of...

Yesterday’s post got us thinking about literary lineage. Not influence, mind you, but writers who actually beget other writers. I...

INTERVIEWER Can you say how you started as a writer? FAULKNER I was living in New Orleans, doing whatever kind of work was n...

Ernest Hemingway used a shotgun. David Foster Wallace used a noose of some sort. Virginia Woolf filled her overcoat pockets with rocks...

I mentioned the other day that I’m reading Blue Highways   by William Least Heat Moon, a book that was recommended to me 10 years ago in C...

“I have started many stories about bicycle racing but have never written one that is as good as the races are both on the indoor and outdoo...

Anyone see “Hemingway and Gellhorn” yet? I don’t subscribe to HBO, but they must have had a free preview a couple weekends ago because I...

INTERVIEWER:   Would you admit to there being symbolism in your novels? HEMINGWAY:   I suppose there are symbols since critics keep findin...