#Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton: Horror Writer

Edith Wharton may best be known for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, but her haunting, spectral tales are what I love the most.

On Edith Wharton’s AGE OF INNOCENCE

If you haven't gotten around to Edith Wharton's Gilded Age sharp-witted look at the Old World vs. the new, get to it!

12 Literary Quotes for Your Holiday Cards

Bookish quotes to include in your holiday cards!

When I’m Dead, Don’t Publish My Unpublished Story

A Rioter responds to the unearthing of Kurt Vonnegut's previously unpublished short story, "The Drone King," and recalls other works published posthumously.

In Italiano: Italian Lit in the News

Ferrante, Lahiri, and Wharton: three authors making Italian lit news in recent days.

Reading Pathways: Edith Wharton

It's more than just The Age of Innocence. Want to read more Edith Wharton, but don't know where to start? We've got a pathway of her best novels for you.

Our Favorite Biographies of Dead Writers

Our Favorite Biographies of Dead Writers

Our Favorite Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novels

Love it or hate it, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt just won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (Personally, I LOVE ...

Reading Aloud

It was the summer of 2008, and I couldn’t look at my dissertation ANY LONGER. I loathed its very existence, ...

“Listening to Books is Cheating” and 7 More Myths About Audiobooks

  A few years back, I found myself in a situation where I needed to fold 300 origami peacocks in ...