Articles Tagged with #literature
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The Business Desk
Our Better Shelves
After visiting more than 2,000 independent bookstores—at least virtually—the Amazon annihilation, Orwell misquotes and all, doesn’t seem quite so inescapable.
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Novelists in Restaurants Eating Food
Café de La Esquina
Between love and tacos, sometimes it’s better to choose tacos. Our series continues where we ask novelists to dine out, then write us something that 1) is a restaurant review; 2) is not a restaurant review.
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Our Passions, Our Day Jobs
Game Face
Even someone who writes erotica for a living has to find ways to get through moments of shame.
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Gallery
The Chinese Party!
A redacted version of Mao Tse-tung’s Little Red Book, illustrated with photographs of contemporary China, becomes a story for modern times.
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Profiles
Main Street, USA
Sinclair Lewis despised his hometown in Minnesota. It disliked him, too, especially after being lampooned in a bestselling novel that mocked the citizens for their small-town ways. These days, though, he’s all they’ve got.
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National Colors
Crime Reported
Lawbreaking occurs, a man calls for help, the police detain an endless lineup of men. Sometimes fraud comes as no surprise.
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Gallery
American Library
Photographs from a new book of American public libraries—some famous, some neglected, some both—plus an essay by former Poet Laureate Charles Simic.
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Dispatches
Read It Again, Dad
Good books are frequently credited with being worth reading twice. But when was the last time anyone had time for that?
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Presenting the 2014 Tournament Brackets and Rooster Shirts
With just over a week to go until the 2014 Rooster crows, it’s time to download this year’s brackets and make your picks for which books will...
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The ToB X Zombie Poll
Zombies are everywhere in today’s films, TV, and literature. As we approach the 10th anniversary of the Tournament of Books, can the Rooster at least get a share...
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The Rooster
Announcing The Morning News Tournament of Books X
The rooster is back, and the rooster is famished. Introducing the finalists and judges for The Morning News 10th Annual Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes.
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The Expense Report
A Moving Experience
Travel is mostly boredom—and if you’re not bored, you’re pretty sure that everyone else is having more fun. Selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2014, the woes of professional travel writers.