Monthly archive - March 2017

Not only is Nan Talese the revered editor of authors such as Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood, but as the wife of Gay Talese, she's also one half of one of publishing's most glamorous and mysterious couples. Evgenia Peretz charts Nan's career and roller-coaster marriage-just as her husband plans to write about it.

There comes a point in every writer's life where we find ourselves questioning everything: our ability to write, our odds of getting published, our sanity at having dared to venture down this path in the first place.  Read more

In case you missed it, Amazon.com, the world's largest online bookseller, has been opening brick-and-mortar stores over the past few years, with the newest opening this week in Chicago's upscale Lakeview neighborhood.

Several years ago, as an aspiring novelist with stardust in my eyes, I used to spend most of my waking hours in Yahoo's Books and Literature chatroom in the company of fellow aspiring writers.  Read more