KING OF KINGS
Nine Things You Didn't Know About Stephen King

With over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels Stephen King is the king of things that go bump in the night. He’s won us over with his murky, peculiar, and often times daunting tales of being able to see the past and the present with just one touch after being in a comatose state for so long or fighting off werewolf attacks and sleeping under church floor boards in churches, just to name a few. With his latest novel Duma Key currently putting an exciting new chapter in his long writing career we thought it’d be great to find out nine things we’re sure you didn’t know about the king of scares. More...

ERASURE
Small Talk With Percival Everett

Percival Everett started his career back in 1983. He has countless books that followed the first, Suder but with his latest novel, The Water Cure, he attempts to shock like never before. Well today, this prestigious author talks with Art Nouveau Magazine about being a professor, Greek mythology and his political party. More...

BEAR IT
An Interview With Bear Parade Designer and Creator

Gene Morgan, editor and designer of Bear Parade, an online journal that has published work by Tao Lin, Ofelia Hunt, Noah Cicero and countless other quirky young writers, doesn’t think of his journal as a way to combat major publishing houses. In fact, he explains it by saying “people who like things from major publishing houses will not like the things on bear parade. We are an alternative, but not a replacement.” Morgan took time off from working on a new Zachary German book to tell us his opinions on the 2007-2008 writers strike, blogging, our celebrity infatuated culture and more. More...

FIRST CHAPTER
"Tales of The Unwanted Hopeless Romantic Morons"

After I wrote you that last email I went and drank on top of the Vs, then did some coke, then lost my bank card and went to the bank on Saturday all cracked out and demanded to get a new card so I could “get my fucking money out of the bank! I give you my fucking business don't I!? Well I want my fucking money that I earned. I could come in here with crack pipe fucking burns all over my face and I should still get my FUCKING money!!!!!” (I only snort coke but I was making a deluded point). More...

KARINA KARINA
An Interview With Writer Karina Kantas

It seems that now days ‘day jobs’ and ‘passions’ can mix. I know they can!  You want to know why, because of my conversation with author, sometime administrative professional Karina Kantas. Here she has kindly taken time out to discuses her latest book In Times of Violence, where anger and emotion reign free; we talk words we talk about influences, we talk determination and we talk about free time. More...

SNAP JUDGMENTS
Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover

Book covers are essential to the success of a book. A good one can make you buy a book and a bad one will make you not. We think that book covers matter to an extent, but it’s what’s inside the book that really matters. Writer Tameika Carter points out some great examples of great book covers. More...

WISHFUL THINKING
Books That Should Have Been Movies

Some of the best movies graced the shelves of Barnes and Noble before they graced the big screen. Before there was The Color Purple the film there was The Color Purple the epistolary novel by Alice Walker. Before there was the Jurassic Park the film there was Jurassic Park the novel by Michael Crichton. We at Art Nouveau Magazine thought it would be fun to highlight books we think we make great movies. More...