Why small children think they are invisible when they close their eyes.
Exit the book. Exit, also, many thousands of pounds from the coffers of Arnott’s publishers, Hodder and Stoughton.
Hitchens. Christopher Hitchens. (via TEV)
Ordinary novelists have readers. Thomas Pynchon has decoders.
After it was done, Omar sent a letter to each of the women whom he had allowed himself to touch immodestly in his youth, informing them that he had lopped off his hand.
When specifying particular cities in fiction, do not use cities that have been specified in poems. Poems have so few things left of their own anymore that we should let them have their own cities.
I’m tired of hearing about “if O. J. did it”. I want to consider how the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman would have gone down if *I* did it.
Why are half of these tearjerkers children’s, and also, why aren’t there any Russians on this list? I am just asking.
It is the fact that Anne Stuart’s comments about her relationship with her current publisher, buried in the middle of a long interview, have resonated with so many people that caught our attention.
“Electrifying” first novel.
KR Advisory Board Member Joyce Carol Oates reviewed at The Independent.