“I TRY SO HARD to be in the future,” Francis Ford Coppola told biographer Sam Wasson for 2023’s The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story , “and always I’m pulled back by the past.” The director of The Godfather Trilogy (1972–90) and Apocalypse Now (1979) has spent decades with his gaze fixed in […]
Writing and surfing can certainly be compared in analogy. But like climbing, surfing has long lent itself to the written word, with Pulitzer-winning scribes among the wave-riding tribe. Photos: Unsplash Regardless of whether you’re reading Matt George , Lauren Hill , Don Winslow or William Finnegan ; or jotting down a few notes about your […]
AI depiction of Hellanicus of Lesbos. Credit: DALLE for the Greek Reporter Hellanicus of Lesbos was born around 480 BC on the Greek island of Lesbos. He was one of the earliest and most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century BC, paving the way for some of the great writers who came after him. […]
Book Marks logo Our feast of fabulous reviews this week includes Sam Sacks on Colm Tóibín’s Long Island , Maggie Shipstead on Elizabeth O’Connor’s Whale Fall , Lara Feigel on Maggie Nelson’s Like Love , Jennifer Wilson on This Strange Eventful History , and Lauren LeBlanc on Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time . Brought […]
Jayne Anne Phillips exploded onto the American literary landscape with Black Tickets , a short story collection that remains so compellingly singular that it ought to function as a handbook for short story writers. It was published in 1979, but I didn’t know of it or read any of its electric stories until some 25 […]
When I first decided to write my novel, “Their Divine Fires,” I knew I wanted to draw on and honor the stories of my grandmother and mother. In the early 1900s, my grandmother’s uncles joined the Communist Party and fought to protect their country against warlords and Japanese soldiers. Decades later, my mother witnessed the […]
Social media has been in an uproar after last month’s Readers Take Denver, when thousands of authors and readers arrived in Denver, Colorado for what was billed as a weekend of events, signings, and meet-and-greets with authors. But RTD (not to be confused with “Regional Transportation District,” Denver’s public transit system) was instead a disaster. […]
You might have heard about sprezzatura. Baldassare Castiglione, in The Book of the Courtier, defined it as “a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.” That was 1528. You might have read about it more recently in the New Yorker, […]
Over the past twenty years or so, the Costume Institute’s annual Met Ball has exploded from in-crowd cause célèbre to the Oscars of fashion. The benefit began in 1948 as a slightly cheeky fundraiser popular among the Capote’s Swans set. But decades of careful marketing from the gala’s co-sponsor ( Vogue, via Diana Vreeland and […]
I thought it would be easy to compile a list of books where women live alone. And it was, but what is considerably less easy is to think about books where women live alone and don’t fall into, or emerge from a completely deranged state. I asked friends, and one replied, “the first thing that […]
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