A book is always about the world, and happy people don’t have time for “about.” 14. Through writing, if you’re lucky, you ...

The Guide is either the train hopper’s Bible or an outdated relic, a must-have or a crutch, depending on whom you ask.” ...

It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand.” ...

In his new memoir, I Regret Almost Everything, Keith McNally’s tells us that his heart has been broken many times over—but it ...

I was born in a town with two traffic lights. It was always early in the morning. The birds did not have feathers, or beaks.

Maya Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. Born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, she lived in Alabama and California in her early years ...

And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Margo Jefferson, Marie NDiaye, A. M. Homes, D. A. Powell, Amie Barrodale, Susan Howe, Domenico Starnone, Miriam Toews, Edward Salem ...

“Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it. . . . Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.” ...