Shot Of Jack Kerouac's On The Road Hits 50 Sixty years ago last month, when John Kerouac walked out the door of his mother’s house in Ozone Park, Queens, America was a [...] John Freeman \ Sep 06, 2007 Read More Mr. Kerouac
On Chesil Beach Ian Mcewan Goes Short Not long ago, Ian McEwan was reading to an audience from his new novel On Chesil Beach , a short, finely observed fable [...] John Freeman \ Jun 21, 2007 Read More Ian McEwan
Short Story Roundup Varieties Of Disturbance It’s a small misnomer to label this new book by MacArthur "Genius" fellow Lydia Davis a collection of stories. Many of the pieces [...] John Freeman \ Jun 14, 2007 Read More
Invisible Books An Interview With Howard Zinn In the past month, several of the nation’s biggest book sections—in Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta—have instituted major cutbacks or changes to their [...] John Freeman \ Jun 07, 2007 Read More Howard Zinn
Writing In An Age Of Silence An Interview With Sara Paretsky Sara Paretsky has been worrying a lot lately. To a certain degree, this is nothing new. “I’m a pessimist by nature,” the 59-year-old [...] John Freeman \ May 31, 2007 Read More Sara Paretsky (Steven E. Gross)
Late For Work An Interview With David Tucker David Tucker has been in the newspaper business 28 years and is a deputy managing editor at The Newark Star-Ledger . He writes [...] John Freeman \ Apr 05, 2007 Read More David Tucker (Karl Kantrowitz)
Spring Is In The Air The Season's Most Notable Releases April comes like an idiot, Edna St. Millay wrote, babbling and strewing flowers. If she were alive today, Edna might add: books, too. [...] John Freeman \ Mar 22, 2007 Read More
Making The List Granta Once Again Examines The Best And Brightest Of A New Generation In the ever-changing anteroom of the Great American Novel, young just got younger, and what it means to be an American broadened significantly. [...] John Freeman \ Mar 08, 2007 Read More
Behave! The Quintessential Gentleman: An Ironic, Sometimes Irreverent Guide To 21 St Century Manners This witty and useful guide to a gentleman’s etiquette runs the gamut from pickup basketball (don’t call ticky-tack fouls) to ’do rags (if [...] John Freeman \ Mar 01, 2007 Read More
The Bastard Of Istanbul An Interview With Elif Shafak Salman Rushdie once noted that the societies that emerged from colonial rule in the ’50s and ’60s soon became hotbeds for literary invention. [...] John Freeman \ Feb 22, 2007 Read More
