Like 50 Shades of Grey? Why not try The Lover by Marguerite Duras? Freddie Moore at The Airship offers some suggestions for books you wouldn’t be embarrassed to be seen…
Whether glamorized or pitied, the figure of the alcoholic writer has long been a subject of cultural fascination. Having written a book on the usual suspects—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, et al.—Olivia Laing asks…
When French novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras died on March 3, 1996, she was probably as prepared as any of us can be. Between November, 1994 and August, 1995 she had written a short, 54 page impossible to find book aptly titled That’s All.