Order the Fish

The excellent P.S. Section from the Olive Edition of Eric Schlosser’s bestselling Fast Food Nation contains a fascinating article the author originally wrote for Vanity Fair. (more…)

Among the Fanatics by Ron Rash

They are invariably called by their first names. (more…)

“In Other Words…That’s What She Does”

Translator Edith Grossman’s job was made doubly hard by the years of scholarship built up around Cervantes’s classic work. (more…)

Breath by Tim Winton

How a childhood in Australia has shaped the life and works of Tim Winton.

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Anne Giardini’s Advice for Happiness

“I always absolutely knew I would write,” says Anne Giardini in the P.S. section of The Sad Truth About Happiness.

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Isabel Allende — The Year After Paula’s Death

“My life, like my books, is made of sorrow and love,” Isabel Allende says in this P.S. section from her memoir, Paula. (more…)

Barbara Kingsolver — “Writing the D.A.B.”

Barbara Kingsolver describes her writing process and, specifically, some of her experiences while creating The Poisonwood Bible. (more…)

Joel Thomas Hynes Knows Himself Better Than He Thinks

Joel Thomas Hynes comes from a small town called Calvert along the Southern Shore of Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula. Hemmed in by spruce and rock, a collapsed fishery, a disgraced church — the usual fixings. (more…)