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Is there one single novel that captures the college experience? Well ... no. The institution you decide to attend, the subjects you choose to study, and your own predilection for hitting the books versus enjoying all of the other ,...
Thursday, 12 January, 2012
Was it surprising when the British Library decided to curate an exhibition about science fiction? A bit, but that reveals more about our own prejudice towards the genre. The exhibition detailed the history of science fiction and divided the genre... More...
My top ten books? They're all kind of sexy and vivid and compelling, involving dangerous writing in some way. The novels sing with an individual voice; the non-fiction with courage. All are a galloping read, and all are immensely inspiring... More...
Choosing the perfect desert island reading is tricky business. I would want books that entertain, but do so well enough to read more than once, the kind that reveal deeper levels as you spend more time between the covers. I... More...
In my novel, The Family Fang, the two children in the story, Buster and Annie (Child A & Child B to their parents) exist in a strange world of their parents' making and, thus, become weird themselves. I was interested... More...
Alice LaPlante teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Stanford University, where she has held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and a Jones Lectureship. Her fiction has appeared in The Southwestern Review and Epoch, among other literary journals, and has won her a TransAtlantic Review fiction prize. She lives in Palo Alto, California. More...
My novel is a coming-of-age story set in the dot.com boom of San Francisco in 1995. The Tenderloin takes its name from a rather tough and... chewy locale in the heart of California's second city. Along with films, the landscape... More...
I can't stress enough that this is a very personal selection: the collections which have made the most profound effect on me and my writing. There is no Chekov, no Joyce, no Cheever, no Munro; not because they are not... More...
It still surprises me that I have written Today, as I long ago put away any thoughts I might be a writer. I became a literary agent instead, helping writers attain the audience their books deserve, and working with authors... More...
Books bring out the recluse in all of us. Whether we're on the couch or in the car, locked in the bathroom or lost between the sheets, our sober little excursions from life are also the settings for our most... More...
Last week's heist at Graff jewellers was pretty awesome, right? Broad daylight, no (obvious) masks--just two guys and one big bag of booty. An example of pure balls, and excellent planning. Not just the stuff of Hollywood or history--how delightful... More...
Epidemics are a tantalising subject for writers and historians, what with the hideous symptoms, the decimating death rates and subsequent social upset. Myths and legends spring up in their wake, while the plague as metaphor is often used in fiction... More...
Some of the most exciting writing of the 20th century has come out of Peru, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, and yet Latin American literature remains somewhat underrated in the northern hemisphere. Time to discover these magnificent works in translation.... More...
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