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Forget Edgar Allan Poe? Nevermore!
Cities up and down the East Coast claim author Edgar Allan Poe as their own and and celebrate his 200th birthday
June 11, 2009 |
By Abigail Tucker
Words to Remember
Amanda McKittrick Ros predicted she would achieve lasting fame as a novelist. Unfortunately, she did
June 2009 |
By Miles Corwin
Eudora Welty as Photographer
Photographs by Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Eudora Welty display the empathy that would later infuse her fiction
April 2009 |
By T.A. Frail
Voices from Literature’s Past
The British Library’s Spoken Word albums of recordings by British and American writers shed new light on the authors' work
March 20, 2009 |
By Matthew Gurewitsch
A Jazzed-Up Langston Hughes
A long-forgotten poem about the African-American experience is given new life in a multimedia performance
March 13, 2009 |
By Laban Carrick Hill
Literary Landmarks: A History of American Women Writers
Author Elaine Showalter discusses the lasting influence of Harriet Beecher Stowe and why Gertrude Stein is overrated
March 06, 2009 |
By Chloë Schama
N. Scott Momaday and the Buffalo Trust
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Kiowa Indian N. Scott Momaday runs a nonprofit organization working to preserve Native cultures
January 2009 |
By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Sarah Vowell on the Puritans' Legacy
The author and 'This American Life' correspondent talks about her book on the colonies' early religious leaders
November 04, 2008 |
By Amanda Bensen
Southern Comfort
Celebrated poet Mark Doty succumbs to Houston's humid charms
October 2008 |
By Mark Doty
In Seattle, a Northwest Passage
He arrived unsure of what to expect—but the prolific author quickly embraced Seattle's energizing diversity
September 2008 |
By Charles Johnson
Adventures of a Portuguese Poet
Wild-hearted Luis Vaz de Camoes’ years abroad are not well-known, but that hasn’t lessened his legend
September 01, 2008 |
By Amanda Bensen
You got a problem with that?
Why do New Yorkers seem rude? A noted critic and essayist has a few ideas
May 2008 |
By Joan Acocella
Urbane Renewal
Claire Messud, the best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, discovers the grown-up pleasures of her adolescent playground
April 2008 |
By Claire Messud
Sound and Fury
Norman Mailer's anger and towering ego propelled-and undermined-his prodigious output
January 2008 |
By Lance Morrow
At Home. For Now
The acclaimed novelist probes our yearning for a fixed address
December 2007 |
By Richard Ford
Hill of Beans
For author Julia Alvarez and her husband, starting an organic coffee plantation was a wake-up call
October 17, 2007 |
By Emily Brady
