Good Character and Method Acting

Good Character and Method Acting Lisa Gornick and Mary Kay Zuravleff On Writing

Two writer friends get together again to knock heads about the importance of character, and all the places and ways they can lead you. Lisa Gornick's new book is Louisa Meets Bear , a "wonderfully, perfectly executed" (NPR) novel in interconnected stories; Mary Kay Zuravleff is the author of Man Alive!. Read on...

Imperium Christian Kracht Excerpt

An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts, Christian Kracht's Imperium has been described by Karl Ove Knausgaard as "astonishing and captivating," a "Conradian literary adventure for our time." In this excerpt, the novel's hero, an obsessive vegetarian and devoted nudist named August Engelhardt, has finally settled down on his private island and begins his transformation into the coconut king of the South Pacific — the rest of the world be damned! Read on...