By: Barbara Bogaev

“I’d sooner clean and paint the house / Than read a book by Botho Strauss.”

By: Brian Berger

He replaced an irreplaceable genius.

By: Joshua Glenn

Gorgeous, evocative, and strange science fiction art from 1904-33.

By: Joshua Glenn

His talent defined an era of sf; the decline of his talent marked the era’s end.

By: Brian Berger

“Sherwood Anderson knew something. He had the instinct.”

By: Lucy Sante

Jules Verne on laudanum, and four other writers rolled into one.

By: Alix Lambert

“Everything that I know, I publish.”

By: Amanda French

Interested in all manner of things, from cancer to clementines.

By: Amanda French

A tireless activist, funny and trenchant.

By: Franklin Bruno

High modernist experi­ments ex­ecuted at pulp­smith rates.

By: Joshua Glenn

Skepticism, cynicism, irony, and contempt vs. the BIP

By: Tim Carmody

The funniest man in Paris — why were his novels so serious?

By: Peggy Nelson

He insisted that he was a poet, no matter what the medium.

By: Tom Nealon

Food requires no justification, no retreat to the cerebral.

By: Alix Lambert

“I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows.”