We are so behind and the interesting stuff keeps piling up, so here we go, down and dirty for your consumption: Check out the newly launched The Nervous Breakdown and the latest installment of The Critical Flame ... Floyd Skloot considers the new Brad Leithauser novel ... Philip Roth's dreadful The ...

Geoff Dyer's Brooklyn Library appearance has just been added to the Events sidebar.  Get thee hence!

Whilst we prep a large-ish Marginalia post, you'll want to cozy up with John Banville on Nabokov in the latest Bookforum: Aptly, we may begin with the title. The dust jacket has it as The Original of Laura: A novel in fragments, while the title page varies this to The Original of Laura (Dying Is Fun). ...

GUEST INTERVIEW BY DANIEL A. OLIVAS Michelle Huneven is the author of three novels including her most recent, Blame (Farrar, Straus and Blame390h Giroux), which has already garnered raves including a Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. Her nonfiction writings include restaurant reviews for the Los ...

Making a quick run back to New York to attend the Center for Fiction's Benefit and Awards Dinner so updates here are likely to resume Wednesday.  Until then, bidding is still open on the Amoco Yo-Yo ...

Pamuk, Baker, Atwood, Ishiguro and others on how they write. Booker-prize winner Michael Ondaatje's preferred medium is 8½-by-11-inch Muji brand lined notebooks. He completes the first three or four drafts by hand, sometimes literally cutting and pasting passages and whole chapters with scissors and ...

Amacoyoyo   I was recently invited to participate in the “Significant Objects” art project, joining the likes of Christopher Sorrentino, Ed Park, Maud Newton, Colson Whitehead and Nicholson Baker. Short version is they send a bunch of writers a random photo (I got the yo-yo pictured above) and we write ...

Writing for Tablet Magazine, Adam Kirsch finds The Humbling "thinly imagined, with few surprises in plot or language." The books he has produced since then, as he entered his 70s, can only be called late late Roth—or better still, endgame Roth, since they are a series of meditations on last things. ...

There are still tickets available for next week's Center for Fiction Awards Dinner, and although it's a steep tariff in these tough times, as you can see past events have been star-studded evenings, so if you're at all inclined to support the only organization in the country devoted solely to fiction, ...

For those interested, registration has officially opened for my first foray into higher learning, the Novel I writing course I will be teaching at UCLA in the Winter term.  Syllabus has been submitted and here's the high level look at what the 10-week class will cover: Week 1. Introductions & Beginnings ...