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Francine Prose

Andrew Solomon, Gérard Biard, Suzanne Nossel, and Jean-Baptiste Thoret.

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

In a heroic show of defiance, several writers decline to appear in a room with editors of Charlie Hebdo because the satirical magazine made jokes about those who must not be joked about.
By Jesse Kornbluth

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

It’s all over. Fashion Week is back in the closet until spring. As this year’s cast of models kicked off
By Chloë Ashby

Occupy Writers Now Publishing Writers Too

Last week we reported on the launch of Occupy Writers, a web site where hundreds of writers, including Salman Rushdie,
By Emily Witt

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

By Michael Miller

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

By Leon Neyfakh

Harvey Weinstein Banking on Americans’ Love for a Good Cry

By Caroline Bankoff

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

By Robert Christgau
Sam Francis posing with his painting 'Blue Balls V' in his Santa Monica studio in 1965. (Courtesy Sam Francis Foundation)

Satirist’s Keen Talent Targets Motherhood Gone Badly Wrong

By Francine Prose

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

By Francine Prose

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

By Daniel Asa Rose

The Anthology Orgy

By Sheelah Kolhatkar

The Iraq Debate: These Guys Aren’t Dummies

By NYO Staff

A Brief and Risky Business:Nine Who Nurtured Artists

By Benjamin Anastas

Model, Teen and Terrorist Face a Culture of Appearances

By Francine Prose

A Writer’s Midlife Crisis Made Seriously Funny

By Wendy Lesser

He Who Wears Failure Shoes Succeeds

By David Bowman
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