Performance artist Mike Albo and his partner, Virginia Heffernan, just published a comic novel about a classic New York phenomenon: a pseudo-friend whose backhanded compliments destroy the hero’s self-confidence.

The National Book Awards, Vibe Awards, and Academy Awards fashion, controversy, and vibe compared.

The Bush biographer defends "The Family: The Real Story Of The Bush Dynasty"

Yes, the five finalists in fiction for the National Book Awards seem a little obscure this year.

This is more fun than sitting at those tables that have everybody solemnly looking through candlelight at each other.

The Ha-Ha has gotten the sort of shop-talk buzz and early reviews (“a writer to watch”) that tend to greet wunderkinds in their twenties.

Louis Auchincloss is the last of the gentlemen novelists. What happens to a moral realist when the world alters around him?

Eisner’s visual flair raised this Everyman–in–a– wrinkled–Brooks Brothers–suit saga to high comic art.

The idea that I would write purely artistically is a naïve idea.

A Shakespeare professor confesses a terrible secret: She writes romance fiction, pseudonymously.