Readings

Night Films, Killer Movies

On Marisha Pessl’s new novel and the quest, from Infinite Jest to Natural Born Killers, to imagine cinema’s deadliest extreme.

Making Space for the Dead

Arguably the preeminent Haitian writer of her generation, Edwidge Danticat talks with Hazlitt about her new novel, Claire of the Sea Light, her connection to home, and writing the dead back to life.

Elmore Leonard’s Economical Ass-Kicking

Author Linwood Barclay on the late Elmore Leonard, his famous rules for writing, and how his novels kept him alert while working the graveyard shift.