If only she weren't so prolific, the thinking goes, that Nobel would be hers.  And Joyce Carol Oates – with the aid of her pseudonyms Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelley – is nothing if not prolific, having written well over fifty books in her lifetime.  But this is not for lack

Rebecca Solnit is one of the most capaciously curious and insightful living writers, having explored subjects across a tremendous variety of fields.  What is perhaps most refreshing about her approach to her material is precisely the fearlessness with which she circumvents traditional methods

César Aira has two tremendous strikes against him for the élitist American literary cognoscenti: he is extraordinarily prolific, and his writing has been endorsed by Roberto Bolaño.  Quite unfortunately for this unique writer's reputation, it seems that Bolaño's fo

My art is inextricably tied to science. I have a BSc in Anatomy & Cell Biology that predates my BFA. I left the world of science because I was interested not only in what the body looks like or how it works – I wanted to find out more about what makes us who we are. What does the experie