Scott Esposito has written about books for almost ten years. His work has appeared widely, including in the Los Angeles Times, Tin House, The Paris Review, and Publishers Weekly. He blogs on literature daily at Conversational Reading.
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Love him or hate him, there's no getting around Ernest Hemingway. Not… more »
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Twain’s life, as only Twain could tell it Mark Twain was never know… more »
A grand history of the world’s most precious commodity Amidst our e… more »
Ernest Hemingway famously took his own life in 1961 after becoming a brok… more »
It’s hard to imagine, but Hemingway’s magnum opus was origina… more »
Needless to say, Ernest Hemingway’s sudden suicide left his literar… more »
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Few authors loved the hard, sad ending as much as Ernest Hemingway did, a… more »
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Detective fiction was at its height in the 1950s, when a small army of ge… more »
How best to begin a book chronicling the travails of life in a low-rent a… more »
Some of the best fictions resemble labyrinths: they drop readers into a c… more »
Part Vertigo, part post-9/11 novel, part inquiry into gender, Felicia Lun… more »
You know the story: Man comes back to his roots. Man buys 612-acre tract … more »
Call Century anything you want — heartbreaking, amazing, stimulatin… more »
An eye-opening memoir of tending to the books in a prison library In Runn… more »
An amazing book of theories that might just portend the end of physics Wh… more »
No book is a perfectly self-contained artifact. Books are more permeable … more »
A new direction for the prophet of the Internet age The techno-thriller m… more »
The best yet from an up-and-coming literary crime writer Imagine: for 22 … more »
The strangest murder mystery you’ll read this year For most novels,… more »
George Saunders's newest story, published only as an audiobook and Kindle Single, is told from the point of view of Fox 8, the title character who pens his tale of friendship and loss by way… more »