Sons of Chicago
MemoirsTwo very different memoirs by Michael Hainey and Aleksandar Hemon find literature and meaning in their lives in the Windy City. By Chris Wallace.
Roughing It With Jonathan Franzen
MODERN CRUSOE<p>The <i>Freedom</i> author went to a deserted island to write <i>Farther Away</i>. Chris Wallace checks into the Bowery Hotel to read the hot new book everyone’s talking about.</p>
Geoff Dyer Stalks Another Hero
<p>The peripatetic Dyer nimbly explores Andrei Tarkovsky’s <i>Stalker</i>, a film that has obsessed the author since he first saw it 30 years ago.</p>