The Ballad of Booze: Carson McCullers’ favourite cocktail
Alcohol: the cure and curse of the literary world.
Books
“The great cowboy novel”: Stephen King picks his favourite book of all time
A fascinating insight into the greats.
“Brain Worms”: the song that inspires Chuck Palahniuk’s prose
The ‘Fight Club’ author likes to use lyrical qualities in his writing.
“Kiss my ass”: when F. Scott Fitzgerald made edits to an Ernest Hemingway masterpiece
A complex relationship…
“Unprecedented”: why William S. Burroughs pins the Beat Revolution on Jack Kerouac
The start of a movement.
Ernest Hemingway’s reading list: 16 essential novels for young writers
Including classics by Leo Tolstoy, Emily Bronte and more.
Anthony Burgess on his ‘A Clockwork Orange’ regret: “I should not have written the book”
A regretful misunderstanding.
Five masterpieces of existentialist fiction you need to read before you die
Including classic novels by Albert Camus, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and more.
“I never believed in that guru trip”: Why Hunter S. Thompson hated drug culture
Hunter S. Thompson enjoyed taking drugs in manic profusion but wasn’t a fan of the associated culture.
The worst book Stephen King ever wrote: “The last one I wrote before I cleaned up my act”
“That was the last one I wrote before I cleaned up my act.”
How Paul Auster subverts detective fiction in ‘The New York Trilogy’
“It seemed inevitable that my story should have a detective element to it.”
