But autobiographical novels like Andrea Hirata’s The Rainbow Troops seem less common today. Some novels contain an autobiographical element, but few marketing departments type it up in their promotional materials. Usually, unless they need to manipulate the truth extensively, authors opt to write a memoir, a genre that sells better and that remains a bit further out along on the fact continuum.
To Whom It May Concern: Long before technology enabled users to converse with their friends and loved ones in 140-character tweets, people had to inform the world about their mundane lives the old-fashioned way: by writing letters.
Michael Chabon returns from the wilderness with a new novel about love, pain and the interconnected lives of two American families.
Over 185 years since Nicéphore Niépce took the world’s first photograph—a photogravure of Pope Pius VII in 1822—the process of photography continues to develop in unanticipated ways.
The world of prose poetry can get murky when you step off the map and into uncharted territory.
