Sometimes in the course of my reading life I come across a novel so good it ruins me. Whatever I start reading next seems gray in compariso...

A friend in my writing group recently mentioned that at the end of each year she makes a list of all the books she read, and then she stars...

Nobody can personify a house like Shirley Jackson. “There was a door to an attic that preferred to stay latched, and would latch itself...

Update: My McSweeney's column is now up! Check it out here . Can you identify this picture?  If you said, "Oh, sure, that...

“Just understand the difference between a man like Reardon and a man like me,” says Jasper Milvain of his novelist friend in George Gissi...

“A truly great book,” wrote Robertson Davies, “should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building s...

It was a Saturday afternoon in April, chilly, and two of my friends from the George Mason MFA program were visiting here in Columbus . N...