Authors like A.O. Scott

Jonathan Allen Lethem is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. His first novel, Gun, with Occasional Music, a genre work that mix

Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American writer.

Marie Lorena Moore was born in Glens Falls, New York, and nic

Adam Levin (b. 1976/77) is an American fiction author. His short fiction has been published in places like Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern an

William "Billy" Friedkin (born August 29, 1935) is an American film and television director, producer and screenwriter closely identified with the

Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Time

Camille Anna Paglia is an American feminist academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia,

Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan I

Jennifer duBois is an American novelist. duBois is a recipient of a Whiting Award and has been named a "5 Under 35" honoree by the National Book Fo

Dorothy B. Hughes (August 10, 1904 – May 6, 1993) was an American crime writer, literary critic, and historian. Hughes wrote fourteen crime and det

William Lindsay Gresham (; August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962) was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly well-regarded among r

Peter Biskind is an American cultural critic, film historian, journalist and former executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996.

Joan Didion (; December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021) was an American writer. Along with Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson and Gay Talese, she is consid

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrille

Janet Clara Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová; July 8, 1934 – June 16, 2021) was an American writer, journalist on staff at The New Yorker magazin

Helen DeWitt (born 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland) is an American novelist. She is the author of the novels The Last Samurai (2000) and Lightning Ro

David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is w

Elizabeth Bruce Hardwick (July 27, 1916 – December 2, 2007) was an American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer.

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