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"Let's live suddenly without thinking ... let's live like the light..."
Author Madison Smartt Bell discusses writing prose like a guitarist, looking for new publishing venues and why Haiti is a spiritual crossroads worthy of study.
Writers are never really off the clock.
What do literary types have queued up on their nightstands and ready to read before lights-out? We asked a few of them, and here’s what they said.
A.J. Liebling deserves to be celebrated. Here's why...
Whether they capture sympathy or virtue, innocence or moxie, here are the 10 fictitious folks we here at the Independent would most like to invite to dinner.
The "Read Women 2014" movement doesn't go far enough.
In honor of the literary game the late Christopher Hitchens used to play with his friend Salman Rushdie, “Titles That Didn’t Quite Make It,” here are some well-known book names that seem, um, less compelling with just one synonym swapped out.
