Bret Easton Ellis' new novel, The Shatters, goes on sale May 18. "I remember that I tried to contemplate the animal with admiration, but the truth is that I did not want to pay attention to the horse," Ellis writes.

"Underestimating Joe Biden has become a national pastime," says author Don Winslow. "As soon as my father died, he started talking to me," says writer Amélie Nothomb. "This could be a moment where we caress its flanks and that moment it did not mind at all"