Biggest Book Ever!

from Paste Magazine Author Aims to Set New Guinness World Record with World’s Largest Published Novel By Jennifer Champagne Yahaya Baruwa, 27-year-old best-selling Canadian author, aims to do more than just release another commercial success, but also release the...

Günter Grass Gone

from The New Yorker The Greatness of Günter Grass BY SALMAN RUSHDIE CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY RENE BURRI / MAGNUM In 1982, when I was in Hamburg for the publication of the German translation of “Midnight’s Children,” I was asked by my publishers if I would like to meet...

Philip Levine Gone

from The New York Times An Appraisal: The Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten By DWIGHT GARNER Della and Tatum, Sweet Pea and Packy, Ida and Cal. You met a lot of unpretentious people in Philip Levine’s spare, ironic poems of the industrial...