Cormac McCarthy's The Road May Have the Scariest Passage in All of Literature
Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon, makes the case.
By Heart
Authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature.
When a Sentence Changes Your Life—Then Changes Its Own Meaning
Author Anthony Marra read new meaning into a line from Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son, years after that line had altered the way Marra thought about writing.
The Wendell Berry Sentence That Inspired Michael Pollan's Food Obsession
For Pollan, "eating is an agricultural act" offers more insight into how food relates to the world than Thoreau or Emerson's words ever could.
The Storytelling Lesson Contained in a Sentence About the Hindenburg
Fiona Maazel, the author of Woke Up Lonely and Last Last Chance, shares her favorite passage from her former teacher Jim Shepard.
'It Was to Know a Kind of Rage': V.S. Naipaul on the Cost of Learning History
Author Aatish Taseer, a chronicler of young Muslims, shares his favorite Naipaul passage.
The Hidden Poetic Genius of an Old, English Nursery Rhyme
Novelist Jim Crace, whose prose has been analyzed by mathematicians for its rhythm, learned his technique from the childhood counting game 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor.'
A Belated Apology to Anton Chekhov
Author Steven Barthelme shares how he came to appreciate 'Lady With Lapdog.'