Mark Haskell Smith
Mark Haskell Smith is the author of six novels, including Moist, Salty, and Blown, as well as three nonfiction books, most recently Rude Talk in Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer’s Journey Through Greece.
The Mythologies of Place
In A Map of Future Ruins, Lauren Markham goes on a political and spiritual quest.
The Quiet Man
In The Librarianist, Patrick deWitt explores the life of an inspired introvert.
More Than Zero
In The Shards, Bret Easton Ellis goes through the looking glass.
Less Is More
Andrew Sean Greer’s Less Is Lost, the sequel to his Pulitzer Prize winner, is a looser, shaggier book.
All Writing Is Failure
Rabih Alameddine discusses his new novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope.
The Alternate History of Los Angeles
In ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines, Sesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo imagine the City of Angels as it might have been.
The Consolations of Cartography
What maps—and imagination—tell us about who we are.
Poetry Picks
Celebrate a poetic change of season with essential works from Jim Harrison, Kim Shuck, and Forrest Gander.