A prestigious press bought my book and I thought my literary career was set. Really, the failure was just beginning
His latest, "A Hologram for the King," is part Michael Chabon, part David Mamet -- and a great audiobook experience
For black artists, our new president has meant the start of a different age. This music aims to capture it
How Brian Sullivan's Pontiac Sunfire became the coolest new student at Brookhaven High School
Excerpt: Meet a teacher who hates his students, a book-smart good girl -- and a boy destined for terrible evil
The bestselling author's ongoing effort to balance the books he's bought with the books he's managed to read
Slide show: Sarah Silverman, Jonathan Ames, Rashida Jones and 17 others turn the pencil on themselves
In this Wholphin short film, austral summer is the season for naked scientists running to the South Pole
In an excerpt from his new book, novelist Nick McDonell asks servicemen about what brought them to the conflict
Twelve emeralds are buried in 12 holes around the country. Can you find them?
McSweeney's remembers the boisterous fiction writer, World War II soldier and co-creator of "Mr. Magoo"
Nabokov's "The Love of a Dwarf," Sartre's failed Freud epic and other missed encounters with the movies
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