Hemingway's Letters

From Vanity Fair: read some of Hemingway's intimate correspondence.

What Did You "Really" Read This Summer?

Salon posed this question to a number of authors and critics -- an ode to the often wildly optimistic, even intimidating reading lists we often create at the beginning of summer "vacation" (for those of us lucky enough to find the summer months vacationing ones). Regardless, here are their responses.

I didn't really create a reading list myself, particularly as I was teaching summer session, but I did manage to squeeze in the novels The History of Love, The Help, American Appetites, and The Road.

You?

Panel at Books and Books to Examine 9/11's Effect on Literature

 The events of 9/11 changed the world, the way we live, our sense of ourselves in the greater scheme of things. But did they change fiction -- or an artist's responsibility to write about the important events in our past?