

Will Penguin Random House Merger with Simon & Schuster Rule Publishing? (from the New York Times)
A Trial Put Publishing’s Inner Workings on Display. What Did We Learn? The book world can be opaque to outsiders. A case offered an...

125 Years of Literary History from NYT Book Review
You must read the review by Joan Didion of John Cheever’s Falconer and the exchange with Alfred Kazin and be transported to a golden age...

Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads
The latest from Franzen, the master of show don’t tell.


In Oliva, Spain
With Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s superb new novel .


Nunca Serás un Verdadero Gondra
Just read this wonderful new novel by Borja Ortiz about two families in the Basque region of Spain. The genre is auto-fiction. The voice...


Ellen Cohen writes about my novel OUT
"Funny, sad, touching, honest and beautifully written. I loved it. Truly, I couldn't put it down." Ellen Cohen