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New Books for Summer

Patrick deWitt and James Boice are reinventing the novel with blunt force

5/16/2011, 12:01 AM

New Esquire Fiction to Read Right Now

Esquire presents a short story by Daniel Woodrell, the author of Winter's Bone and Tomato Red

4/8/2011, 2:07 PM

Review: David Foster Wallace's
Final, Beautiful Novel

You can't read the author's last book without thinking of his untimely death. But you should, indeed, read it.

3/15/2011, 4:00 PM

Where Did the Sex Novels Go?

At some point, young fiction writers largely abandoned sex as an area of concern. It's time to change that.

2/2/2011, 12:58 PM

First Look at Elmore Leonard's New Novel

Somali pirates, the Pittsburgh Pirates, underwater demolition men, CNN, a movie, and a bullet between the eyes — all without bad guys

10/11/2010, 8:24 AM

Jesus Out to Sea

When Katrina came to Louisiana five years ago, she peeled the face off a city that was already gone.

8/22/2010, 9:35 PM

Franzen's Great American Novel?

Whatever else it is, the author's follow-up to The Corrections is one great slab of a book, at a time when most books have given up on greatness.

8/11/2010, 3:50 PM

First Look at The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

As the final novel in his Millennium trilogy, the book follows the author's heroine — struggling after taking a bullet to the head — as she finishes her juicy quest for justice

5/21/2010, 10:29 AM

First Look at The Pregnant Widow

The author's latest novel is the best thing he's written since last decade. Plus, it's full of attractive people and a swimming pool.

5/20/2010, 10:32 AM

First Look at Less Than Zero Sequel

In Imperial Bedrooms, the author reintroduces the characters from his classic. Twenty-five years later, read an exclusive excerpt of the same drug-addled despair.

5/19/2010, 10:15 AM

Is American Fiction Killing the Tough Guy?

Lee Child's Jack Reacher is literature's latest Chandler-esque protagonist. Can he live up this legacy?

5/7/2010, 10:34 AM

Esquire Fiction: "Just Before the Black"

Author (and actor) James Franco offers this story about how it's only right before you die that you know you're living

3/24/2010, 8:00 AM

<p>Everything you need to know about what propels the American male: "I am an American, Chicago born &#151; Chicago, that somber city &#151; and go at things as I have taught myself, freestyle, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent."</p>
<p>The book to read: <i>The Adventures of Augie March.</i></p>

The 12 Authors Every Man Must Know

And their one book you must read, from Stephen King to Shakespeare

3/2/2010, 8:00 AM

Somebody Please Get Don DeLillo a Drink

He pretty much predicted 9/11. Now, after years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, he's predicting our final doom in Point Omega. But a few laughs along the way wouldn't hurt.

1/27/2010, 12:44 PM

Adam Haslett's Union Atlantic Prologue: Exclusive Excerpt

The first great novel of the new century is about us, now. Read the beginning of a big, ambitious book about fending off financial collapse.

11/10/2009, 8:58 AM

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