How “Penelope Ashe” pulled off the biggest literary caper of the century.
In the 1960s and 70s, the photographer Lee Friedlander took his family on summer road trips. Along the way, he took pictures that established him as one of the most acute, celebr...
Last week on the show, we heard about the first volume of Mark Twain's new autobiography, released (at Twain's expressed direction) a century after his death: “It has seemed to me t...
Just last weekend, the British novelist Howard Jacobson was lamenting that he wasn't being taken seriously. "There is a fear of comedy in the novel today," he wrote the Guardian ...