‘A kind of gorging, gulping, transporting experience of being lifted out of my life: That’s what I’m looking for as a reader, and that’s what I hope to provide as a writer’

Industry insiders and Village Voice staffers on what books you should be reading as the days heat up

‘In a community that attracts atheists, Wiccans, CIA agents, physicists, semioticians, libertines, libertarians, and unrepentant Trotskyites, one might anticipate a few political debates’

‘My sexual education was limited to imagination, Google, the great novels of the mid-twentieth century, and the horny men who wrote them’

“Robin” author Dave Itzkoff on Richard Pryor, Sarah Silverman, and the golden age of stand-up

The audiobook industry is booming, thanks in part to golden-throated narrators like Grover Gardner

The Bronx has a rich cultural past, but the literary community is invested in cultivating an even richer cultural future