In a truly modern media scandal, Tommaso Debenedetti (of the esteemed Italian Debenedetti) literary family has been publishing fake interviews in Il Piccolo magazine with the likes of Phillip Roth,…
Type the name “Jack Matthews” into Wikipedia and it will take you to the profile of a Welsh rugby player, now retired. The Jack Matthews recently interviewed on TeleRead, however,…
Clichés are, by definition, old hat, but what if there’s a subtler version of the oh-so-enticing little literary buggers? Blogging for the Guardian, Peter Robbins pontificates on his own personal…
In light of the recent Orange Prize short list, Jojo Moyes ruminates on the split themes of modern women’s fiction. Somewhat dark, serious subject matter such as Barbara Kingsolver’s The…
Sara Faye Lieber’s essay “Bohemian Rhapsody” begins with a meditation on sleep, a most basic and necessary human activity, and goes on to describe how her own becomes impeded by…
With the days of frantically clicking away pop ups behind us, ad-blocking software may seem like the perfect way to view your favorite sites in peace. And yet, as Ken…
As the term “self-publishing” became more common in the vernacular, the prospect of DIY literature was seen as godsend, bridging the gap between writer and reader, creating a corporate publisher-free…
Digitized books, whether they be in kindle form or otherwise, are more than just a fad, and although Google Books is growing by the day, many authors have recently chosen…
An old professor from college writes me and asks for my snail mail address. It isn’t such a strange request – we have developed a kind of friendship since I…