literary

Image from the cover of “Naked Came the Stranger”

'Naked Came the Stranger': An oral history

How “Penelope Ashe” pulled off the biggest literary caper of the century.

'Naked Came the Stranger': An oral history

360 Exclusive: Hot on the Trail of "Anonymous"

360 Exclusive: Hot on the Trail of "Anonymous"

Novelist's Loner Protagonist is All Too Real in Tucson

Novelist's Loner Protagonist is All Too Real in Tucson

Huck Finn Loses the ‘N’ Word

Huck Finn Loses the ‘N’ Word

360 Staff Pick: H. L. Mencken's Prejudices

360 Staff Pick: H. L. Mencken's Prejudices

On the Road With the Friedlanders

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...

On the Road With the Friedlanders

This Book Will Not Be Digitized

This Book Will Not Be Digitized

The Steady Rise of “For Colored Girls”

The Steady Rise of “For Colored Girls”

I, Twain: the Graphic Novel

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...

I, Twain: the Graphic Novel

The Taqwacores

The Taqwacores

Franzen on Wharton

Franzen on Wharton

Howard Jacobson Wins the Booker Prize

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 ...

Howard Jacobson Wins the Booker Prize

Jonathan Franzen Mans Up

Jonathan Franzen Mans Up

Getting Lost with Hand Drawn Maps

Getting Lost with Hand Drawn Maps

360 Staff Pick: Memory Wall

360 Staff Pick: Memory Wall