Jimmy So is deputy books editor at Newsweek/The Daily Beast. He has been a contributor for The New Yorker.com, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Seattle Times, and CBS News.com. He's the recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship for arts and cultural criticism, and holds a Master of Arts from Columbia University. Follow him on Twitter @jimmyso.
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Last Dispatches from the Front
Read three last WWI letters—two from great war poets, and one from a legendary editor’s son.... MORE
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Best Presidential Campaign Posters
From Carter as Jesus to Ford as Fonzie, a new Library of Congress book presents the narrative of... MORE
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Bestselling Book Series of All Time
The ‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy just topped 10 million copies sold in the U.S.... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
The Oscar-winning director of ‘Inside Job’ indicts the fat cats, and Jay McInerney’s wine-soaked... MORE
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15 Hottest Books for Mom
Mother’s Day 2012 coincides with a torrent of great titles for mom—in fact, great titles, period.... MORE
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Maurice Sendak’s Greatest Hits
He was one of the first writers to insist on telling kids the truth.... MORE
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This Week’s Hot Reads
An essay collection from an august music critic, and Granta’s mesmerizing take on the state of... MORE
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ExxonMobil's Sinister Kingdom
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll tells Jimmy So that the world’s largest publicly traded... MORE
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What America's Reading
What was the bestselling book last year?... MORE
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This Week's Hot Reads
This week: an evil preacher haunts a novel with biblical qualities, and a personal look at the... MORE
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The Pulitzer Fiction Snub
Even the jurors are fuming over the board’s decision not to award a prize this year.... MORE
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No Fiction Pulitzer Awarded!
The board couldn’t agree on a winner even though ‘Train Dreams,’ ‘Swamplandia!... MORE
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This Week's Hot Reads
A people's history of liberalism from FDR to Obama and a novel about the ascendance of Seattle.... MORE
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Listen to This
Rarely seen or heard footage and recordings of great writers (Waugh, Woolf, Freud) allow you to... MORE
