Philip Roth, Mario Vargas Llosa, T.C. Boyle, Geraldine Brooks, Patricia Cornwell, Robert Caro, and Jeffrey Eugenides will be among more than 100 writers speaking at the National Book Festival on the Mall September 22 and 23, the Library of Congress announced today. Other authors and poets slated to appear at the festival include Sandra Cisneros, [...]
The British author Lauren Child is probably best known in the United States for her best-selling Charlie and Lola books, which were turned into a popular animated TV series, and for the Clarice Bean stories. Her latest book, “Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes,” is the first in Ms. Child’s new detective series for middle [...]
By JOHN R. MacARTHUR NEW YORK This is the Class Day speech Tuesday at Columbia College, a day after President Obama’s speech at Barnard College, also part of Columbia University. President Bollinger, Provost Coatsworth, Vice President Dirks, Dean Valentini, members of the class of 2012 and their parents, honored guests. I realize that many among [...]
I listened to my first audiobook three years ago, when I had to master an interview subject’s massive literary œuvre in a very short time and realized that, to do it, I would have to use every available moment of the day—including those when traditional reading was impossible: walking home after dropping my son at [...]
Recently, I watched an Iranian, an Italo-Palestinian, and an American Jew take the stage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, backed by a string quartet. There’s a punch line in there somewhere. (A reporter for the Village Voice quipped, “Even Rush Limbaugh couldn’t make up a funnier parody of what Upper East Side Manhattanites do [...]
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