17 Most Screwed Up Relationships In Books

August 28, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 17 Most Screwed Up Relationships In Books We've all had a bad breakup...or four. But we don't really think relationships get any crazier in real life than they have in some classic and contemporary literature. Take "Gone Girl"'s Amy and Nick. Would you want to date either of them? We didn't think so. Continue reading... 11 Hottest Biographies Coming This Fall Why The Best Crime Fiction Is Written By Women Huge Superman Rumor Debunked 17 Most Screwed Up Relationships In Books Now You Know Twerking Has Gone Mainstream The 'Harry Potter' Character JK Rowling Misses Most Now You Know Twerking Has Gone Mainstream NSFW: Sex Scene From Sasha Grey's New Book Now You Know Twerking Has Gone Mainstream The 'Harry Potter' Character JK Rowling Misses Most RICK CLEVELAND Remembering Elmore This many years later, whenever I'm beginning to write anything new, whether it's an episode of a television series, or a new play, I'll often re-read one of Elmore's novels. For inspiration, and as a reminder of how it's done right. Continue reading... ROB HIAASEN Annapolis Noir, Baby Elmore Leonard died this week. He was 87 and was at work on his 46th novel. That's a book every other year if he had started writing fresh from the womb, which don't put past him. Continue reading... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Empathy, Love and the LGBT Characters In My Books I'm not trying to shock or taunt anyone by writing LGBT characters. I'm just writing about my life and the people I love. And hope that others might recognize a small piece of themselves in these characters, and fall in love with them, too. Continue reading... DAVID WILD "Isolation": A Very Public Playlist for J.D. Salinger By virtue of his genius as a writer and the fact that he became a fascinatingly elusive character in his own right, J.D. Salinger remains, even after his death, an absolute somebody. In the weeks ahead, Salinger is posthumously making the kind of splash that he resisted most of his life. Continue reading... ADRIAN BENEPE Prospect Park: Olmsted & Vaux's Brooklyn Masterpiece: Book Excerpt I didn't grow up in Prospect Park. My neighborhood park was Riverside, and Central Park was where I sometimes went on weekends as a child. Prospect Park was, to me, a mythical land in distant Brooklyn, across the East River and reachable only by a long trip on the subway. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003