Francine Prose

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Francine Prose

Francine Prose

Food Fight at the PEN Gala: I’m With Charlie

Is Your Underwear Purple Too?: Post-Fashion Week Musings on Style in Literature

Occupy Writers Now Publishing Writers Too

Burnham, Baby, Burnham: Harper Honcho Falls at Literary Bee

Literati Gathers Around a Big Dinosaur at PEN Literary Gala, Perhaps Symbolically

Harvey Weinstein Banking on Americans’ Love for a Good Cry

Sobriety With a Subtext: On the Wagon, Off the Dole

Satirist’s Keen Talent Targets Motherhood Gone Badly Wrong

What Is Depression? A Loss of Identity, Feeling of Being Trapped

A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? Neo-Nazi Joins Anti-Hate Group

The Anthology Orgy

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