I should have slept with Philip Roth
"Would you like to taste one of my cherries?" the great writer asked me, flirtatiously. And then I blew it
Monday, Jul 1, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 67Life Books, Philip Roth
Writers and Writing
Life Books, Philip Roth
Curtis Sittenfeld: “It’s not my primary goal to make my characters likable”
The author of "Sisterland" and "Prep" talks to Salon about pretty covers and literary gossip
Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 8:00 PM UTCEntertainment curtis sittenfeld, sisterland
Why stories of female sexual predators shock us
Alissa Nutting, the summer's most controversial author, on "Lolita" and why her book isn't the next "Fifty Shades"
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 12:00 PM UTC 14Entertainment alissa nutting, Tampa
Sex, Spider-Man and the hubris of being a writer
Sarah Bruni, Adelle Waldman, Alissa Nutting and Periel Aschenbrand talk about writing in very few words
Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 12:00 AM UTCLife Books, periel aschenbrand
What Kanye has in common with Bret Easton Ellis
Authenticity -- whether you are who your art says you are -- is crucial (and slippery) in literature and rap alike
Saturday, Jun 22, 2013 6:30 PM UTC 14Entertainment Kanye West, Bret Easton Ellis
Gun nuts’ strangest subculture: Book clubs
Mega gun shows have an odd literary side and a secretly thriving self-publishing side. The books are pretty bizarre
Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 12:10 PM UTC 31News Guns, Gun shows, NRA
John Horne Burns: The writer Hemingway and Vidal envied
"The Gallery" was among the first (and best) novels about gay life in the military. Its author has an amazing story
Wednesday, Jun 19, 2013 12:00 AM UTCLife History, World War II, Gay Rights
Looking to the mother I barely knew
My gay father raised me, but I felt a truer kinship with my mother
Tuesday, Jun 18, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 18Life Motherhood, Fatherhood
Joseph Ellis: 1776, the summer America was born
Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph Ellis on Washington, Adams and the months when soldiers and statesmen forged America
Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 1:59 PM UTC 15Politics Revolutionary War
Russians who raised the dead
In the years before World War II, Russian scientists attempted to revive fish and dog heads, and even a human being
Friday, Jun 14, 2013 11:30 PM UTC 22Entertainment zombies, Russia
Goodnight, sweet print
Are words on paper gone forever?
Sunday, May 12, 2013 7:00 PM UTC 15Life The Weeklings, Print, Novels
Kerouac: Angel-headed hipster
The writer's restless odyssey and his new life “On the Road”
Sunday, May 12, 2013 4:30 PM UTCEntertainment L.A. Review of Books
What a mother should be
Men have always brought conflicted ideas to the maternal script. Good thing women keep writing their own lines
Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:00 AM UTCLife Mother's Day, Motherhood
I’m tweeting “The Great Gatsby”
For years, I've been sharing the novel 140 characters at a time. Who says social networks prevent us from reading?
Friday, May 10, 2013 11:43 PM UTC 16Life The Great Gatsby
Augusten Burroughs: “What did normal people do when they stopped drinking?”
I had no idea how to fill the day when I got sober. Writing about it at least gave me something to do with my hands
Tuesday, Apr 23, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 16Life Books, Alcoholism, Editor's Picks
Best of the Salon limerick contest
Part two: A roundup of some of our favorite poetic news items
Sunday, Apr 14, 2013 3:00 PM UTCNews Poetry, Writers and Writing
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Part 1: The election
Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 3:00 PM UTCNews salon limerick contest
I’m a self-publishing failure
I was hoping to become the next indie success story. Instead, I got a tough lesson in vanity
Tuesday, Apr 2, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 78Business Writers and Writing, ebooks
The myths of happiness
Three books on how to attain it and what it means
Sunday, Mar 31, 2013 9:00 PM UTCLife L.A. Review of Books, Happiness
Salon limerick contest
Rhyming the news, five lines at a time
Sunday, Mar 31, 2013 2:59 PM UTCNews salon limerick contest
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