When describing his new book, “Memorial,” Bryan Washington has called it a gay slacker dramedy, a lowercase love story and a novel about the creases…
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Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey
In his memoir, “Greenlights,” the star of “Dazed and Confused” and “Dallas Buyers Club” shares lessons from a life in which he turned out all…
Star Wars Writer Teases A Huge New Film Project
Gary Whitta, the co-writer of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Season 1 of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, is working on something new, and…
The World of Books Braces for a Newly Ominous Future
The public health crisis and the resulting economic fallout have hit at a moment of relative calm and strength for the industry, after a period…
Tyler Perry Encouraged by Jude Apatow to Have a Writer’s Room After Admitting He Doesn’t Have One
The ‘Diary of a Mad Black Woman’ star is told by his fellow Hollywood filmmaker to consider hiring a team of writers for his plays,…
Considering Darryl Pinckney and Authenticity
This week, Lauretta Charlton reviews Darryl Pinckney’s collection of essays “Busted in New York.” In 1992, Edmund White wrote for the Book Review about “High…
You Won’t Find Mark Morris at the Multiplex
“I’m not that interested in movies,” says the dancer and choreographer, whose new memoir is “Out Loud.” “I like poetry.” What books are on your…
Larry Heinemann, Novelist of the Vietnam War, Dies at 75
Larry Heinemann, a Vietnam veteran who drew on his war experiences in two well-received novels — one of which, “Paco’s Story,” startled the literary world…
Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit
Clive James, who died on Sunday at 80, mined such a rich vein of wit in his writing — poems, memoirs, translations, novels, song lyrics,…
Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind
Harold Bloom, the imperious and convivial scholar and literary critic, the last colossus in terms of his ardor and prodigious memory, a self-described “tired, sad,…