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Constance Debré Started Sleeping With Women. Then She Wrote Four Books.

Truman Capote Bites the Hands That Fed Him

‘Truman Capote in Hot Water’ appeared in the February 9, 1976, issue of New York. Liz Smith writes about the society scandal that erupted around Capote’s story “La Côte Basque 1965,” and his rejection by the swans after it was published.

New Books for Summer Reading - Quadrant Online

Every highbrow hack, as Evelyn Waugh described Cyril Connolly, is apt to experience an embarrassment of riches when it comes to recommending books for the beach and other seasonal retreats from workaday life. Surveying the bookcase and its shelf of recent titles, this year is very much of a kind

This Week in 'Nation' History: 100 Years of Writing About Marcel Proust's 'Almost Wizard Power'

Proust, a reviewer wrote in 1921, “may not be what his hero set out to be in his childhood, the greatest writer in the world, but he is one of those.”

PROUST IN RUSSIAN. : languagehat.com

Capturing the homes of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé

Why read Proust in 2023?

The world is literally on fire; authoritarianism threatens multiple countries; racism and xenophobia are rampant; women’s and LGBTQ rights are under threat—why on earth would anyone spend time reading a 3,000-page novel by a man who’s been dead (exactly) a hundred years?

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 181

The Paris Review is a literary magazine featuring original writing, art, and in-depth interviews with famous writers.

Marcel Proust on What Writing Is

In the last volume of “In Search of Lost Time,” Proust famously describes the transformation of himself as an author.

Letter to the Editors: "A Century of Serious Difficulty"

On reading outside the university.