The Copyright Problem: Three Myths That Are Killing Literary Culture

1. Writers just want to be read. I recently heard a young woman at a party say that writers don’t mind when their books are downloaded for free on the internet, because “writers just want to be read.” As a …

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Book to Movie: Atonement

The first book-to-movie that really blew me away was The Comfort of Strangers, the 1991 Paul Schrader film based on Ian McEwan’s novel of the same name. Starring Christopher Walken and Natasha Richardson, the film perfectly captures the eerie, moody …

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San Francisco Journal of Books seeks reviewers

The new online publication, San Francisco Journal of Books, publishes thought-provoking reviews of new fiction and nonfiction from across the publishing spectrum. We believe that the divide between literary and genre fiction is often arbitrary, that good writing spans subject and …

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Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner

With The Killing–AMC’s moody Seattle-centric drama series about a smart, nervous, possibly mentally ill, and extremely dedicated female detective attempting to unravel the murder of a young girl–only a distant memory, I’ve been jonesing for a thriller with a woman …

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The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones

The Next Time You See Me, the debut novel by Holly Goddard Jones, is a literary mystery in the tradition of Kate Atkinson. The novel opens with the discovery of a body in the woods by a misfit middle-schooler named …

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