James Lee Burke, whose Dave Robicheaux novels are set in New Iberia in southwest Louisiana and in New Orleans, has been on my mind while watching the latest tragedy, the

The Next Decade in Book Culture. A conversation sponsored by the National Book Critics Circle   May 27, 2010 11:00 amJakob K. Javits Center, Room 1E14665 West 34th StreetNew York,

Summery day. Drifts of tree pollen and cherry blossoms in the air. New Yorkers baring arms, legs, tattoos. Mayday protest for workers’ rights in Union Square, cheek by jowl  with

PEN president K. Anthony Appiah was the eloquent master of ceremonies on Saturday afternoon, May 1, unruffled despite flaws in the sound system, as the venerable and stately Toni Morrison,

Thursday evening this week's PEN World Voices spread out all over New York.  As I sat in the front section of the Morgan Library auditorium, I knew there were whirlwinds

Jeff Howe, a Nieman Fellow at Harvard who originated the term crowdsourcing, had an idea a couple weeks ago, based on how the NEA's Big Read program worked: “What if

Over the next month or so we're going to be offering a new series of guest posts (read the first series,”The Next Decade in Book Culture here). Our question: How