Fuck Rock

from Authors Equity You can’t hand-deliver books to Rock Center. And other lessons from our first year. by AUTHORS EQUITY Author dinner with James Frey. Hi, all. A year ago today, I was part of a tiny sleep-deprived band setting out on the streets of midtown...

No Mo’ Brit Lit

from The Telegraph University scraps English literature degree as ‘no longer viable’ Canterbury Christ Church University blames a decline in applicants as it drops the subject for new students A 1483 woodcut shows Chaucer’s pilgrims en route to Canterbury Canterbury...

Pillow-smotherers

from Tablet Magazine A Cancellation Trilogy Jews take the lead in a new literary art form: The cancel-culture novel BY SHELUYANG PENG TABLET MAGAZINE Nothing stifles great art like censorship, whether through overt acts by government censors or through acts of...

Dorothy

from The New Yorker Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown Her reviews are not contemptuous, a common pitfall for her imitators. They are simply unbridled in their dislike. By Sloane Crosley Illustration by Cecilia Carlstedt When I think of Dorothy...