Hilary Mantel and George Saunders are on the Time 100 list along with Sheryl Sandberg, Frank Ocean, Daniel Day-Lewis, and many others.

Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, and other writers that liked to work late into the night.

Anonymous gets into the news game.

[PANK] is looking to raise some funds.

Levi Asher on J. M. Coetzee’s first novel.

The gargoyle reading a book on 181st street.

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the first American to summit the world’s tallest peak.

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