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Recently my mom mentioned that she's challenging herself to read every book that's ever won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The idea didn't initially inspire me to try the same, but it did pique my curiosity enough that I looked up the list of winners. But as I went through the list I realized...

Today when I went to buy clay for pottery class, I stopped in at the used bookstore by the ceramics studio where I buy my clay. I was talking with the shop girl about Russian novels and mentioned that Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are my all-time favorite translators, and she told me about hearing...

I don't really like Kurt Vonnegut that much (a topic about which I can speak at length, but not right now, because I am at work and have limited time). Nonetheless, I think he has some good tips for writing fiction. Read on. Eight rules for writing fiction: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in...

The radio program Fresh Air (hosted by Terry Gross of WHYY and aired on National Public Radio stations) featured a great interview with Blade Runner director Ridley Scott last month (Dec. 2007). You can search the programs archives at http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgld=13 to hear...

By CHARLES McGRATH ALL his life the science fiction writer Philip K. *** yearned for what he called the mainstream. He wanted to be a serious literary writer, not a sci-fi hack whose audience consisted, he once said, of “trolls and wackos.” But Mr. ***, who popped as many as 1,000 amphetamine pills a...