A continuation of yesterday’s theme, from The Paris Review’s Art of Fiction #207 : INTERVIEWER What books were you reading in t...

Young Peter Orlovsky looks like he could have lit “ the world on FAH-EE-UH ” years before the idea struck Fun’s lead vocalist (Nate Ruess....

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

 A couple days ago I tried to root out some of the psychological underpinnings of Thomas Mann’s stories and explain why they had such a te...

It’s been a couple months since I tackled Death in Venice & Other Tales   by German author Thomas Mann. The collection was my very ...