(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark ...

For writers, the face of Samuel Beckett, in all its graven, leathery, wrinkled severity, remains an object of great aspiration--it seems to be what a writer's face should look like. So it's fitting ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alan Riding PARISIAN LIVES Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir By Deirdre Bair ...

In February 1950, David Greene, who was then a professor of English at New York University, asked a twenty-three-year-old protégé on a Fulbright year in Paris to track down Samuel Beckett. I should ...