Tag: Novels
Matthew McAlister: Criminally Underappreciated
April 2013Georges Simenon might be the best French-language novelist you’ve never heard of.
The End of Gore Vidal
August 2012The iconoclastic leftist and novelist discusses the rage that fueled him, and how he felt about his coming end alongside the ruin of America.
A Kind of Flag-Planting
November 2010On the heels of her second novel and fourth work of fiction, Bender considers magic and math, craft and discipline, and the influence of other writers and artists on her work.
Meakin Armstrong: On Edisto
July 2009Padgett Powell’s Edisto, which takes place within sight of a beach, isn’t a difficult read—it’s propulsive and written with a light hand—but it’s also rife with all those harder topics that make the book worthwhile.
