Rust Hills, Esquire’s longtime fiction editor, once had an ambitious and provocative idea: capture the most influential people in writing and publishing in a single graphic. The July 1963 issue of ...

Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, a satire of the publishing world and modern race relations, stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, an English professor and novelist frustrated by what ...

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When it comes to the history of American literature, there are few, if any bigger names than Esquire magazine. Under the off-and-on fiction editorship of legendary editor Rust Hills from the ’50s to ...

There’s an old maxim in literature: “Write what you know.” For John Counts, that’s a fascinating journey: Sipping pop in northern Michigan bars as a child while his old man drank and talked fishing ...

Frederik Pohl (1918-2013) recorded at the Octocon Science Fiction Convention, October 15-16, 1978. Interviewers: Richard Wolinsky, Richard A. Lupoff and Lawrence Davidson, for KPFA’s Probabilities ...