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His father was a drinker – by his 40s, Jim had sworn off drugs, alcohol, tobacco and even coffee – who nonetheless taught his son a lesson that dominated Jim’s life: “When you do something nice for somebody, forget it immediately. When someone does something nice for you, never forget it.” This led to tolerance of all kinds of people – one of Haynes’s books (with Jeanne Pasle-Green) was called Hello, I Love You (1974). He claimed that his ambition was to have everyone in the world in his address book. In the mid-60s, having been forced out of the Traverse by financial difficulti...

Hervé Guibert began writing To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life in the last week of 1988; he has just been diagnosed with AIDS but is convinced he can survive. He plots the novel against the uncertain coordinates of this new virus: “I have a sense of the structure of this new book I’ve been harbouring within myself all these last weeks, but I don’t know how it will unfold in its entirety; I can imagine several endings, all of which fall for the moment under the heading of premonition or desire, but the whole truth is still hidden from me.”

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie, among several others, this star-studded period piece was exactly the sort of entertaining revisionist history that only Tarantino could make, and it became another critical and commercial darling for the famous filmmaker. It was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and it won two, for Best Production Design and Best Supporting Actor for Pitt. Following the movie's celebrated success, what is the cast of Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood doing ...

Share: Dennis Cooper became famous in the 1980s for his transgressive fiction about marginalized men. A new biography makes a case for what his works can offer readers now, in our era of deep suffering and infuriating indifference. Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper Diarmuid Hester The idea of a transgressive writer is a bit hard to fathom in the current moment, but that’s precisely what Dennis Cooper was. In the 1980s and ’90s, he rose to counterculture fame with his brilliant, dark novels about gay teens, gay psychopaths, gay drug addicts, and gay sex workers. This earned him ...

Our Favorite International Reads of 2020 (and What We’ll Be Reading in 2021)   Editor This year, I'm keeping my recommendations to the Southern Cone, perhaps out of the wistful recollection that as we face gray, blustery afternoons here in New York, warmer climes hold elsewhere. Daniel Tunnard 's  Escapes(Unnamed Press), set in a world in which competitive Scrabble is a globally televised craze under the thumb of the Scrafia (yes, a Scrabble mafia), is an uproarious novel staked on the final encounter between former world champs Florence Satine and Buenaventura Escobar in Argentina's Tigr...