Author Q&A with Benjamin Lorr

Ashleigh Andrews Rich interviewed Benjamin Lorr, author of Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga, which explores the fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of American yoga.

Last week, the Independent celebrated its second anniversary. That’s right, our organization has now reached the stage of temper tantrums, poopy diapers, screaming fits, and creating havoc everywhere we go.

When the jackpot gets large enough, I like to play the Powerball. I try not to think of writing the same way: as a luck-driven, strike-it-rich kind of enterprise.

Author Q&A with Sarah Selecky

Jeni Oppenheimer interviews the author of This Cake Is For The Party.

Reading Room Porn

I came across this photo gallery of the reading room in Donald Oresman’s midtown Manhattan apartment and I had to share it here, knowing that some of you would appreciate it.

A recent piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books claims so, relating Gollum to the character Sigurd in Marie Corelli’s Thelma.

Hatchet Job Of The Year

Ron Charles, Washington Post book critic as well as everyone’s favorite Totally Hip Video Book Reviewer, reports that he was disappointed to learn he had not won The Hatchet Job of the Year Award, given by The Omnivore for “the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months.”

Author Q&A with Meghan Laslocky

In this special Valentine’s Day interview, Mandy Huckins talks with Meghan Laslocky, author of The Little Book of Heartbreak.