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More From Our Southern Editor: House of Horrors
Peyton Sawyer's House on One Tree Hill— and John Jeremiah Sullivan's in life. Last spring our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, came up to New York to give a little reading here on White Street....
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The Smartest Gifts of the Season
This year The Paris Review has the perfect present for anyone you know—and that little something for yourself too! Beloved by writers and artists for more than a century, the iconic Moleskine notebook...
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Staff Picks: ‘Betsy-Tacy,’ Doomed Quests
If you have children to shop for, you can do them no greater favor than to introduce them to Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy series, the first four volumes of which were just rereleased with original...
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Staff Picks: Monkey Minds, the Singing Butler, and Rum Cookies
Last night Daniel Smith taught me the word anxiolytics. It means “anxiety reducers.” (Dan is the author of Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety, so he should know.) His favorite nonchemical anxiolytic is...
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Men, Women, Dante, and Other News
GQ suggested the books every man should read. So then Flavorwire amended their list. You could, of course, also stick to Robert Frost’s favorite books. (If you like the classics.) Women, meanwhile,...
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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
John O’Hara’s Pal Joey remains an exemplar of a rare form: the epistolary novella. From Robert Jonas’s cover for an early paperback edition of Pal Joey, ca. 1946. Ever see the movie? Well, do yourself...
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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
We’re away until January 4, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2015. Please enjoy, and have a happy New Year! From Robert Jonas’s cover for an early paperback edition of Pal Joey,...
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Staff Picks: Tests, Tongues, Tinfoil Orbs
Rorschach psychodiagnostics. From the first chapter of The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing, out in February, it seems incredible that no one before Damion Searls...
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Our Town: An Interview with Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik and Martha Parker, 1985. Earlier this fall, I got an amusing call from the writer Adam Gopnik. He’d come to Los Angeles as part of the tour for his new book, At the Strangers’ Gate, and...
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Staff Picks: Passion, Portals, and Premature Presents
T. S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees” I’ve spent a lot of time guddling around the Daily archive of late. There are many joys attendant to this, not least the expansion of that tragic...
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