How an old lady in Koch’s bathroom inspired his short stories, and eventually led to their publication.

Quick! 400,000-plus self-published novels are hurtling toward you from cyberspace. What do you do?

TNB fiction editor Alex Chee on the new Storyville app.

Will Entrekin is reading the future of publishing. On a Kindle.

TNB’s founder continues his running column about American literary culture—from a Left Coast perspective.

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** The Nervous Breakdown and Hukilau partner to launch TNB‘s new publishing imprint.   LOS ANGELES, Calif. (June 2010) – Readers addicted to nonfiction, fiction and poetry have long been getting their fix at the online culture magazine The Nervous Breakdown (TNB), a site founded by bestselling author Brad Listi (Attention. Deficit. Disorder.). [...]

TNB’s founding editor launches a new column about American literary culture—from a Western perspective.

When it comes down to literary smackdowns, Will Entrekin wonders: What Would Shakespeare Do?

eBooks, schmEbooks. What began as an issue that turned writers and lovers of printed books alike into Chicken Littles who ran through the streets screaming ‘The Kindle is falling!’ (I can’t help but feel this must be grimly satisfying to the ghosts of the long-dead monks who warned everybody about this Gutenberg asshole), has rapidly [...]