Literary Icons Rushdie and le Carré End 15-Year Feud

Staff / Truthdig Nov 13, 2012 Nobody fights better than writers, so it's a little sad that novelists Salman Rushdie and John le Carré have agreed to stop hating each other. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Philip Roth Quietly Calls it Quits

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 10, 2012 The glum-faced author announced what appears to be his retirement in a “little-noticed” interview with a French magazine. "To tell you the truth, I'm done," Roth told Les Inrocks in October, adding that he has not written anything in three years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Vidal: ‘I Am the Enemy to So Many’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 1, 2012 Throughout his adult life and probably his youth, Gore Vidal enjoyed the sort of playful self-adulation that is often mistaken for arrogance when committed by members of the American upper class. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Sin and Sustenance

Jean Randich / Truthdig Jan 7, 2012 Lauren B. Davis' thrilling, polyphonic new novel, “Our Daily Bread,” takes us into a backwoods clan rife with child abuse and incest, and asks the question: "When does another person's suffering become my responsibility?" Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Can I Help You?

BLANK Jan 4, 2012 In this excerpt from Lauren B. Davis' new novel, “Our Daily Bread,” an elderly woman encounters two troubled boys and the question of whether we ever do enough to help others. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Ha Ha, Another Midlife Crisis

Rayyan Al-Shawaf / Truthdig Nov 18, 2011 Howard Jacobson's novel "No More Mr. Nice Guy" travels well-worn territory: the male midlife crisis in search of laughs. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Campus Intrigue

Staff / Truthdig Nov 2, 2011 An excerpt from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jeffrey Eugenides' third novel, "The Marriage Plot," which centers on a romantic triangle at Brown University in 1982. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

‘Lost Horizon’ for American Ovaries

Cherilyn Parsons / Truthdig Jul 29, 2011 Ann Patchett's sixth novel, "State of Wonder," poses a provocative question: If, ladies, you could preserve your fertility into your 50s, 60s or even later, would you? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

‘The Double Life of Alfred Buber’

BLANK Jul 20, 2011 In David Schmahmann's new novel, Alfred Buber is a respected man with a secret. Telling his boss and colleagues that he's going to Paris, he regularly travels instead to Southeast Asia to go whoring in the squalid back alleys. And then on one of his trips to Bangkok, he falls in love.An excerpt from David Schmahmann's new novel, about a john who falls in love with an Asian prostitute. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Bloombergs, (Barely) Fictionalized

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2011 It's an old cliché that new writers should write about what they know, and by all appearances Georgina Bloomberg, daughter of Mayor Mike and professional equestrienne, has done just that in her debut novel, "The A Circuit" Read along as she doesn't try very hard to convince a New York Times reporter that her first book is much of a departure from her life . Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Book Preview: ‘The Fall’

BLANK Mar 25, 2011 In fledgling author Ryan Quinn's coming-of-age novel, three friends meet in their senior year at an isolated New England university, forming an unlikely triangle that changes the course of their lives in a story about identity, first love and contemporary friendships. Here's a snippet from the book's beginning, courtesy of the author.Three friends meet in their senior year at an isolated New England university in a story about identity, first love and contemporary friendships. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Why I Miss Norman Mailer

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Feb 18, 2011 I thought that I’d done everything I was supposed to do. This was back in the springtime of 2007, about seven months before Norman Mailer died. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )