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November 11, 1996
Meet Your Neighbor, Thomas Pynchon

While scholars speculated that he had lost his mind, or taken to the road, the world's most successful media fugitive, author of Gravity's Rainbow, and The Crying of Lot 49, has been living quietly among us. A literary investigation.

June 23, 2008
Is This Book Worth Getting?

A no-frills guide to the just-published fiction shelf.

June 23, 2008
Comic-Book Hero

Young Dash Shaw has written the graphic novel of the year—and it’s not even autobiographical.

June 2, 2008
A Warming Trend

Book-jacket designers all scream for you-know-what.

May 26, 2008
Dungeon Master: David Benioff

In 2001, David ­Benioff made a few nice Hollywood deals and signed a three-book package with Viking.

May 12, 2008
In Cold War Blood: Tom Rob Smith

Think of Tom Rob Smith’s debut novel, Child 44, as a prequel to Martin Cruz Smith’s classic mystery Gorky Park.

May 5, 2008
The Memory Addict

Augusten Burroughs doesn’t just write about his past. He holds séances.

April 28, 2008
Flava of the Month

At the Chateau Marmont with Margaret B. Jones, L.A.’s memoirist of gang life.

April 28, 2008
Is This Book Worth Getting?

A no-frills guide to five just-published first novels.

April 21, 2008
Wikipedia Watch

Archive junkie Nicholson Baker recently lauded Wikipedia in The New York Review of Books. Cool. But can you match him and other writers to their Wiki bios?