Edmund White is a strange and exciting mix of the scholarly and the scandalous. So whether you're favoring the mind or the body, you'll find something to like in just about anything he's written. (We have a hardback copy of The Burning Library, a collection of his essays, for an absurdly low $5.99; that's a … Continue reading Edmund White recalls Nabokov imitating Borges

The late, great Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski died last month. He wrote atmospheric, poetic--and, it's been charged, unsubstantiated--accounts of upheavals in Angola, Iran, and Ethopia. The good news: Granta has posted an interview with Kapuscinski from 1987. Meanwhile, dueling articles at slate.com present the man as either a novelist masquerading as a journalist or a … Continue reading Ryszard Kapuscinski: News and Two Views

If you have a taste for the odd and funny, you don't want to miss one my my favorite authors (and perhaps the most appealing deviate writing today), Jonathan Ames. He's like Woody Allen with a taste for transvestites. A good place to start is his recent article at nerve.com in which he attends a … Continue reading Jonathan Ames at nerve.com