No chapter, no clothes: Victor Hugo’s bizarre naked writing routine
A wild and kinky nymphomaniac…
Books
Burn all manuscripts: did Franz Kafka really want his work destroyed after his death?
A true master of surrealism…
‘Double Exposure’: The mystery of Sylvia Plath’s missing novel
The manuscript suspiciously disapeared.
Bob Dylan’s favourite books by musicians: “Writes like the whirlwind”
A list of books written by musicians.
Intellectual Pretence: the book most people have lied about reading
Embellishments around the watercooler.
‘Slouching Towards Bethlehem’: Joan Didion’s brave look at the dark side of the 1960s
A stark look at San Francisco.
James Joyce to Albert Camus: Inside Marilyn Monroe’s extensive personal library
An underrated intellectual.