Francine Prose discusses "Five Weeks in the Country," a darkly comic novel about Dickens, Andersen, and the tensions between ...

How big are the books of May? So big that one of them features three name-brand authors for the price of one. That would be the latest from award-winning Francine Prose, whose novel “Five Weeks in the ...

The literary magazine, Lapham’s Quarterly, was founded in 2007. Over the past two years, Lapham’s Quarterly has undergone a dramatic transformation. In late 2023 it put its print publication on hiatus ...

Francine Prose's new book is a series of "brief lives" of women who inspired famous men, from the real-life Alice of Alice in Wonderland to Yoko Ono. Hear about the odd couplings of the unsocialized ...

Francine Prose has said reading should be a "a weapon against narcissism." "You know what silly putty is?" Alvin Rosenfeld asks. "That's what Anne Frank is like. You can shape her into anything." In ...

Salvador Dali famously said “Have no fear of perfection — you’ll never achieve it.” But then Maestro Dali never had the chance to read Francine Prose’s flawless new novel “Mr. Monkey.” Because Prose ...

Francine Prose, author of “1974, A Personal History” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. The author of twenty novels and ten books of non fiction, Francine Prose is best known for such novels ...

Francine Prose considers evil in her compelling new novel “Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932.” She revives, as one of her several narrators aptly puts it, “the spirit of a woman buried by a ...

Francine Prose, author of “1974, A Personal History” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. The author of twenty novels and ten books of non fiction, Francine Prose is best known for such novels ...

Reading books about reading books can present a few conundrums. What if you haven’t read the books the authors discuss? Or find you’d rather just read the books themselves? And then there’s that ...

My New American Life is the immigrant story told in a new way. Francine Prose's touching and funny character, Lula, is used to suffering -- she comes from… ...

"This exquisite, elegant volume includes every print made by the highly regarded American artist Terry Winters over the past fifteen years. Terry Winters' prints explore an enormous range of themes, ...