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How Adrienne Miller Made It in the 1990s Heyday of the Postmodern Lit Bro

The former ‘Esquire’ literary editor and author of the new memoir ‘In the Land of Men’ didn’t just tangle with the snobbish masculinity of that era’s literary scene, but also with its infamous poster boy — David Foster Wallace

Don’t Watch ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ — Read It

A Matt Damon movie is no substitute for the novels of Patricia Highsmith

What It’s Like to Write a Book in Prison

Tasos Theofilou spent nearly six years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. The only way for him to stave off the desperation of his plight was to take pen to paper

How the Most Gruesome Western Ever Written Became an ‘Unfilmable’ Hollywood Legend

For 25 years, Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece ‘Blood Meridian’ has stumped every director and screenwriter who tried to bring it to the big screen