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Books

Arts Crime History

The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel

In January 1966–the same month In Cold Blood was first published–Truman Capote sat down with George Plimpton to discuss the new art form he liked to call “creative journalism.”

George Plimpton, Truman Capote New York Times Jan 1966 35min Permalink

Arts History

David Mitchell Bends Fiction

A interview with David Mitchell, author of the recent The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas, on stretching a fictional universe across multiple novels and centuries of real history.

Wyatt Mason New York Times Jul 2010 Permalink

Arts

Fresh Hell

The boom in dystopian fiction aimed at young adults.

Laura Miller New Yorker Jun 2010 10min Permalink

Arts

A Kind of Vast Fiction

An email dialogue between David Gates and Jonathan Lethem on writing fiction in the age of online experiences.

David Gates, Jonathan Lethem PEN America Jun 2010 15min Permalink

Arts Politics

Regard the Scuttlebutt as True

The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.

Paul Mariani First Things Jun 2010 Permalink

Arts

The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson

After his untimely death at age 50, prior to the publication of any of his novels, Larsson is posthumously at the center of a publishing empire built on the international success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Charles McGrath New York Times Magazine May 2010 Permalink

Arts

The Holy Grail of the Unconscious

Jung’s ‘Red Book’, a secret journal of dreams and drawings, has been in a Swiss vault for the better part of a century. The burden of its care has fallen on his descendants, who have reluctantly allowed it to be published.

Sara Corbett New York Times Sep 2009 Permalink

Arts History World

The Death of a Civil Servant

An uneasy friendship forms in colonial Ceylon between the future husband of Virgina Woolf and a socially repulsive police magistrate.

Lev Grossman The Believer May 2010 25min Permalink

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