Donna Tartt News 2025
Read the latest articles, interviews and news updates on Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch, The Secret History, and The Little Friend.
- Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia - Literary Hub
- Mona Awad, R.F. Kuang, Donna Tartt and More: 10 Dark Academia Books to Read This Fall - People.com
- 7 Novels Built "On The Weight of a Shared Secret" - CrimeReads
- ‘The Secret History’ and the Problem With Dark Academia - The Colgate Maroon-News
- Opinion: Book review: What ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt can tell us about college life - Willamette Collegian
- There’s a Book for That: Dark Academia - Penguin Random House
- It’s Donna Tartt season: our 7 dark academia decor picks - Yahoo Life UK
- Donna Tartt’s novel as seen through the eyes of a trauma therapist. - Psychology Today
- Letter to the editor: On meeting Donna Tartt - The Williams Record
- Literary Assassin - Vulture
- Jenna's Book Club: Thriller And Mystery Picks That Will Keep You Hooked - glam.com
- 23 Books That You’ll Cancel Plans to Finish - Oprah Daily
- The Best Dark Academia Novels To Add To Your Book Club Reading List - women.com
- The Good Books, Heather Darwent: ‘I will never tire of Donna Tartt, she’s my favourite writer’ - Scottish Field
- What The Goldfinch Movie Failed to Do with Donna Tartt’s Masterpiece - Times Now
- Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis (Published 2020) - The New York Times
- Donna Tartt, the writing life - Rivista Studio
- Donna Tartt Answers Questions About The Secret History, Social Media, More - TODAY.com
- Donna Tartt: By the Book (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History - Literary Hub
- PORTFOLIO: WILLIAM EGGLESTON - Artforum
- Donna Tartt on the books that were important to her while writing The Secret History. - Literary Hub
- Reading Pathways: Donna Tartt - Book Riot
- Donna Tartt | Books, The Secret History, & Novels - Britannica
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt: A Book Review - drvinayprasad.com
- Why Great Writing Is Like the Star Trek Blooper Reel - Literary Hub
- ‘The Secret History’ is not a good book - The Michigan Daily
- Fooled You: On Donna Tartt’s Genre Fiction - Los Angeles Review of Books
- Jenna Bush Hager December 2022 Read With Jenna Pick - TODAY.com
- “This confusion is both tragic and unfair.” Donna Tartt thinks you’re reading too much into it. - Literary Hub
- Reliving History: My 30 Years with THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt - Book Riot
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About Donna Tartt’s Dorm-Room Martini Hours - The Cut
- Read Donna Tartt’s Philippic Against Standardization - Slate
- CELEBRITY BOOK REVIEW: Michelle Obama Reviews "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt - Electric Literature
- 7 Books That Will Hook You From the Very First Page - vocal.media
- Your guide to mysterious literary genius Donna Tartt - Dazed
- Art and Artifice, by Donna Tartt - Harper's Magazine
- The Secret History Is Still the Book I Recommend to Everyone - The Cut
- Did a Podcast About Donna Tartt Go Too Far? - The New Republic
- Writer Brings in the World While She Keeps It at Bay (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- Searching for genius in Bennington, Vermont: The secret history of Donna Tartt - The Michigan Daily
- Book Review: The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch” - The Arts Fuse
- How Donna Tartt’s The Secret History Hides Fantasy in Plain Sight - reactormag.com
- Sally Rooney meets The Secret History? A brilliantly brainy crime caper - The Times
- "So Coke-y…So Entitled!”: This Is What It Was Like Going to Bennington College With Bret Easton Ellis, Donna Tartt, and Jonathan Lethem - Vanity Fair
- The Allure of Donna Tartt - theimpactnews.com
- Why Donna Tartt's The Secret History Never Became a Movie - Town & Country Magazine
- Introducing Donna Tartt - Vanity Fair
- What Does Donna Tartt Think About 'The Goldfinch'? - Town & Country Magazine
- Movie Adaptation of “The Goldfinch” Lets Down Readers - The Amherst Student
- The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on - BBC
- March of the megabooks: it's all Donna Tartt's fault - The Guardian
- Donna Tartt: the slow-burn literary giant | Observer profile - The Guardian
- Dark academia's deadly allure and the timeless appeal of prep style : It's Been a Minute - NPR
- Pop-Tartt - The Baffler
- The secret herstory: what happened to Donna Tartt's women? - The Guardian
- Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” as Revenge Fantasy - Los Angeles Review of Books
- The Secret History of Audiobooks - The Conversation
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – review - The Guardian
- Finding Inspiration in Vermont’s ‘Shirley Jackson and Donna Tartt Country’ - CrimeReads
- Saturday Book Review: The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - The Rumpus
- Which Donna Tartt novel is her definitive work? - The California Aggie
- Chatelaine Book Club interview with Donna Tartt, author of The Goldfinch - Chatelaine
- Donna Tartt pays tribute to Charles Portis - Arkansas Times
- The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) - The Pulitzer Prizes
- 8 Queer Dark Academia Novels You Should Read ASAP - Nerdist
- Book Review: 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt - Your Observer
- Remembering the Doomed Donna Tartt Character Bunny Corcoran, Himbo Supreme - jezebel.com
- Age 20: “The Year of Magical Thinking” - Yale Daily News
- Book Review: Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' - WKAR
- Juno Dawson: ‘The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a deeply vibey novel’ - The Guardian
- Ten reasons why we love Donna Tartt's The Secret History - The Guardian
- 10 Fascinating Facts About Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History' - Mental Floss
- Not the Booker prize shortlist: a long look at Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch - The Guardian
- Flights of Fancy (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- Pulitzer Prize–Winner Donna Tartt on Writing The Goldfinch - Vogue
- ‘The Secret History’: Why the quintessential ‘young American snob’s novel’ is trending on TikTok - EL PAÍS English
- Reading ‘The Goldfinch’ on My Late Mother’s Kindle - Book and Film Globe
- Better listen to that Bennington podcast now—before Donna Tartt squashes it. - Literary Hub
- Donna Tartt - Mississippi Free Press
- The Snow in the Mountains Was Melting: A Review of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History - strandmagazine.co.uk
- Readers’ Review: “The Secret History” By Donna Tartt - Diane Rehm - On My Mind
- Why you should skip ‘The Goldfinch’ movie and pick up the book instead - America Magazine
- The Goldfinch: can a film solve Donna Tartt's most divisive book? - The Guardian
- The Books Briefing: What the Internet Age Is Taking Away From Writers - The Atlantic
- Donna Tartt’s The Secret History at 30 - New Statesman
- Why Are Literary Critics Dismayed by Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Its Success? - Vanity Fair
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – review - The Guardian
- Sex, Drugs, and Bestsellers: The Legend of the Literary Brat Pack - Harper's BAZAAR
- The Style Evolution of Donna Tartt - Town & Country Magazine
- Donna Tartt heads Baileys women's prize for fiction 2014 shortlist - The Guardian
- Donna Tartt is a master of Dark Academia style - RUSSH
- Review: The Secret History, Donna Tartt - thebubble.org.uk
- Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch - The Christian Century
- The trailer for Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch looks . . . very sentimental. - Literary Hub
- Nicola Sturgeon's rebellious reads: from Donna Tartt to Ali Smith | Books - The Guardian
- Do Succession and The Secret History Share a Central Character? - Vanity Fair
- Donna Tartt: "The fun thing about writing a book is that it really is a different life" - Salon.com
- Hook the Reader and Hold Them: Why More Writers Should Study the Lessons of YA - Literary Hub
- Q&A: Donna Tartt - The Guardian
What's Donna Tartt Working on Now?
With The Little Friend finally complete, Tartt is now reported to be working on a version of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus, due to be published by Canongate as part of a series that will feature updated fables by Philip Pullman, Margaret Atwood, Jeanette Winterson and JM Coetzee.
The Little Friend
The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times. Read all about it here.
Read the Prologue.
The Secret History - the movie
Director: Scott Hicks
Screenplay: Christopher Hampton
Runtime: 91 mins
A long-planned film of the book dropped into one of the most protracted developments hells in Hollywood history. The project passed through the indecisive hands of Alan Pakula, Christopher Hampton and Scott Hicks to end up (possibly...) as a Warner-Miramax venture with the sibling duo of Gwyneth Paltrow as producer and Jake Paltrow as director.
- Boyd Tonkin, independent.co.uk, The Secret History: Whatever happened to Donna Tartt?, May 21, 2002
The best-selling Donna Tartt novel The Secret History continues its circuitous path towards the silver screen. Hyphenate Alan J. Pakula was the first to set to work on the project, initially planning to direct it, later merely to produce. His untimely death is but the latest in a series of setbacks for the piece, which has seen drafts by Rafael Yglesias, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, and Christopher Hampton. Shine helmer Scott Hicks had expressed some interest in the pic, which tells the chilly tale of five students who are caught in the thrall of a brilliant classics professor, only to accidentally commit a murder while carying out an ancient Greek ritual.
- inhollywood.com, the development report, April 1999
Donna Tartt, on her new novel, tentatively titled "Tribulation", due out early 2002
Excerpt from the interview
"When I was writing this book I was thinking very much about Stevenson, who I love, very much about Treasure Island and the pirates, and you know, Long John Silver, - books that I loved as a child. This is a book about children, but it's not a book for children. It's a frightening book. It's a scary book. It's fairly dark. It's about children coming into contact with adults. It doesn't take place wholly in the world of children (when I say children, I mean twelve years old...) And coming into contact with the world of adults in a very frightening way. (...) It's finished. I'm doing the edits now, the rewriting..." - Donna Tartt
The Secret History of Donna Tartt
by Mark Coles, Arts Correspondent
BBC
April 2001
"...Donna Tartt is preparing her comeback too... She has finished her second novel - well almost - 'I'm editing it down at the moment,' she says.
'It's a book about children - but not for children - its a frightening scary book about children coming into contact with the world of adults in a very frightening way'. So why had it taken so long to write? 'I can't write quickly. If I could write a book a year and maintain the same quality I'd be happy. I'd love to write a book a year but I don't think I'd have any fans'. Donna Tartt's new novel - with the provisional title 'Tribulation' is scheduled for publication early next year."
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Whatever Happened to Donna Tartt?
BBC
April 2001
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It’s about time for Donna Tartt to release another novel. Is there any news on her latest effort?

 
			
