‘Faster’ Writer Chloe Caldwell Is Releasing A Collection Of Essays

I see her walking with Him and the Fords to the helicopter, from whose steps He’ll give one final V-for-Victory salute before going back to San Clemente and having a long-delayed breakdown. (Her mouth is a straight line; her mouth is always a straight line, even when she is smiling.)  She…

What if you could go back in time and single-handedly avert a monumental crisis that changed the course of history?

Don’t worry, there are no spoiler-alerts in this TFT review!

Answering this oft-posed question would subvert and demolish the immense pleasure of reading 11/22/63, Stephen…

Creo que vengo de la poesía. – Roberto Bolaño

Perhaps surprising to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form, above fiction, nonfiction, and everything in between. In an interview back in 2000, he jeers novel writing, calling it “an imperfect…

- Flavorwire on their favorite Vonnegut-isms, such as:

If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

- The Awl takes a look at…

As you likely know, Murakami’s epic 1Q84 was released last month. If you can’t find a copy to dig into, or want to take a break from the novel with a short film, check out this 1983 short by Naoto Yamakawa. It is based on “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Woman One Beautiful April Morning” from The…

I’m not really a fan of Andy Warhol, but I do like some of the things he said, which I chalk up to the old joke about the broken clock being right twice a day.  If I’m remembering correctly, he once said, describing one of his own films, that just because something is boring, it doesn’t…

Paige Taggart’s Polaroid Parade (Greying Ghost, 2011), Ben Fama’s New Waves (Minutes Books, 2011), and Genya Turovskaya’s Dear Jenny (S U P E R M A C H I N E, 2011).

In an era when much fuss is made about the “death” of print, independent presses such as Minutes Books, SUPERMACHINE,…

Haruki Murakami’s epic new novel, 1Q84 is meant for two kinds of people: those who have been haunted  by and obsessed with Murakami’s fiction for years, and those who have never read any of his books. The first fortunate group will be gratified beyond their wildest dreams (and I mean that…