Bibliobibuli

I knew J.D. Salinger . But he did not know me. I could not call him up whenever I felt like it. No one could. Because I knew J.D. Salinger l...

The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards afte...

You can catch up with author Ioannis Gatsiounis at Borders, The Curve between 3-4pm this Saturday, where he will be signing copies of his ne...

Fiction is something I’ve quietly been pursuing alongside the news analysis. Media is seductive in that it offers an immediate outlet to voi...

Another local author deserving a cheer is Ioannis Gatsiounis with his collection of short stories entitled Velvet & Cinder Blocks . (T...

Much ink has been spilled on the question of why so many writers are alcoholics. Of America’s seven Nobel laureates, five were lushes—to wh...

Thomas Pynchon is a noted literary recluse. Despite being the best-selling author of V and Gravity's Rainbow and achieving cult sta...

Your book got a lousy review? Twitter seems to be the tool of choice for hitting back at the reviewer. Alice Hoffman called Boston Globe cr...

I was so busy rushing headlong into the future, loving libraries and books and authors with all my heart and soul. was so consumed with beco...

The world's richest literary prize, the IMPAC Dublin has been awarded to debut novelist Michael Thomas for his novel Man Gone Down . T...

Marilynne Robinson has won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction for her third novel, Home . Chair of Judges Fi Glover called it : A kind, wise...

The Pulitzer Prizes have also been announced , and the winner in the fiction category is Olive Kitteridge , by Elizabeth Strout : ... a coll...

Caribbean-American author and creative writing teacher Brenda Flannagan is interviewed in StarMag by Martin Vengadesan . She visited scho...

My Facebook buddy, Maximilian Loh, tagged me on his note to share this wondrous classic of overwriting (Click to enlarge to readable size.) ...

I recently met up with David Ritchie, an American editor in Korea and the author of 10 Million Tigers a whimsical study of life in Seoul. W...

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fanta...

Would you take love advice from a nine-year old? That's how old Alec Greven, author of How to Talk to Girls , is. The book inspired by h...

My father told me what his most important books were. He named Laura as one of them. One doesn't name a book one intends to destroy. Won...

Heard the sad new from Preeta that American author David Foster Wallace took his own life on Friday evening at the age of 46. As Preeta says...

What would you say if you knew you were going to die and had a chance to sum up everything that was most important to you? College professor...