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.
- Donna Tartt | Books, The Secret History, & Novels - Britannica
- Letter to the editor: On meeting Donna Tartt - The Williams Record
- Literary Assassin - Vulture
- Opinion: Book review: What ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt can tell us about college life - Willamette Collegian
- Searching for genius in Bennington, Vermont: The secret history of Donna Tartt - The Michigan Daily
- The Good Books, Heather Darwent: ‘I will never tire of Donna Tartt, she’s my favourite writer’ - Scottish Field
- From Sylvia Plath to Donna Tartt: 5 trending books you’ll find in every It girl’s tote bag - Tatler Asia
- I’ve read 24 books this year, and these are the ones to buy for Prime Day 2025 - London Evening Standard
- What The Goldfinch Movie Failed to Do with Donna Tartt’s Masterpiece - Times Now
- Book Buddies: ‘The Secret History’ - The Tartan
- I've read 5,000 books – these are the 10 best novels ever written - Daily Express
- 17 Books That You’ll Cancel Plans to Finish - Oprah Daily
- The Agonies: Spotify audiobooks, I love you, but you’re bringing me down - varsity.co.uk
- Author: ‘I’ll always be a Galway girl at heart… the best thing about it? The people, without a doubt!’ - Belfast Telegraph
- Donna Tartt on the Singular Voice, and Pungent Humor, of Charles Portis (Published 2020) - The New York Times
- The Price of Prestige: The Secret History and Academic Elitism - - thebadgeronline.com
- Donna Tartt Answers Questions About The Secret History, Social Media, More - TODAY.com
- A cult classic: Reading ‘The Secret History’ at Williams - The Williams Record
- Donna Tartt: By the Book (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- ‘The Secret History’ is not a good book - The Michigan Daily
- Reading Pathways: Donna Tartt - Book Riot
- Donna Tartt on the books that were important to her while writing The Secret History. - Literary Hub
- Read Donna Tartt’s Philippic Against Standardization - Slate Magazine
- A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History - Literary Hub
- Fooled You: On Donna Tartt’s Genre Fiction - Los Angeles Review of Books
- Sally Rooney meets The Secret History? A brilliantly brainy crime caper - The Times
- Why Great Writing Is Like the Star Trek Blooper Reel - Literary Hub
- “This confusion is both tragic and unfair.” Donna Tartt thinks you’re reading too much into it. - Literary Hub
- The Reading List: facing your fear of insufficiency - varsity.co.uk
- Dust Thou Art: Donna Tartt’s The Secret History at Thirty - The European Conservative
- Donna Tartt’s Decade-Long Writing Process: The Art of Patience and Perfection - Times Now
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About Donna Tartt’s Dorm-Room Martini Hours - The Cut
- John Banville: "It’s a like a child playing with insects – you have absolute power over the characters" - Hotpress
- The Secret History Is Still the Book I Recommend to Everyone - The Cut
- CELEBRITY BOOK REVIEW: Michelle Obama Reviews "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt - Electric Literature
- 8 Books To Read If You Liked The Little Friend - Times Now
- 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
- Why Donna Tartt's The Secret History Never Became a Movie - Town & Country Magazine
- Your guide to mysterious literary genius Donna Tartt - Dazed
- Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” as Revenge Fantasy - Los Angeles Review of Books
- What Does Donna Tartt Think About 'The Goldfinch'? - Town & Country Magazine
- The Allure of Donna Tartt - theimpactnews.com
- Introducing Donna Tartt - Vanity Fair
- Reliving History: My 30 Years with THE SECRET HISTORY by Donna Tartt - Book Riot
- The Secret History of Audiobooks - The Conversation
- Movie Adaptation of “The Goldfinch” Lets Down Readers - The Amherst Student
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – review - The Guardian
- Donna Tartt - Charlie Rose (1992) - Splice Today
- Book review — The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt - Artblog
- Every Student Should Have A ‘The Secret History’ Phase: Why It’s An October Must-Read - NYLON Manila
- Donna Tartt: the slow-burn literary giant | Observer profile - The Guardian
- Book Review: The Unwavering Gaze — Fabritius and Donna Tartt’s “The Goldfinch” - The Arts Fuse
- 8 Queer Dark Academia Novels You Should Read ASAP - Nerdist
- Which Donna Tartt novel is her definitive work? - The California Aggie
- Donna Tartt, the writing life - Rivista Studio
- The secret herstory: what happened to Donna Tartt's women? - The Guardian
- Donna Tartt - Mississippi Free Press
- The Secret History: A murder mystery that thrills 30 years on - BBC
- New Wine, Old Skins: Donna Tartt - The Imaginative Conservative
- Finding Inspiration in Vermont’s ‘Shirley Jackson and Donna Tartt Country’ - CrimeReads
- Reading ‘The Goldfinch’ on My Late Mother’s Kindle - Book and Film Globe
- ‘The Secret History’: Why the quintessential ‘young American snob’s novel’ is trending on TikTok - EL PAÍS English
- Hook the Reader and Hold Them: Why More Writers Should Study the Lessons of YA - Literary Hub
- Readers’ Review: “The Secret History” By Donna Tartt - Diane Rehm - On My Mind
- The Style Evolution of Donna Tartt - Town & Country Magazine
- Author Donna Tartt on art, culture and criminality - Chatelaine
- Pulitzer Prize–Winner Donna Tartt on Writing _The Goldfinch_ - Vogue
- Flights of Fancy (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- 10 Books Set at College That Will Bring You Back to Your School Days: 'Ninth House' and More - Woman's World
- Jenna Bush Hager December 2022 Read With Jenna Pick - TODAY.com
- The (Dis)Consolation of Art - Eugene Weekly
- Not the Booker prize shortlist: a long look at Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch - The Guardian
- Better listen to that Bennington podcast now—before Donna Tartt squashes it. - Literary Hub
- Ten reasons why we love Donna Tartt's The Secret History - The Guardian
- The Goldfinch: can a film solve Donna Tartt's most divisive book? - The Guardian
- The Secret History's tragic flaw? Those Kids Are No Fun - CrimeReads
- Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch - The Christian Century
- More Is More In Donna Tartt's Believable, Behemoth 'Goldfinch' - NPR
- Donna Tartt’s The Secret History at 30 - New Statesman
- Donna Tartt: "The fun thing about writing a book is that it really is a different life" - Salon.com
- Why you should skip ‘The Goldfinch’ movie and pick up the book instead - America Magazine
- Age 20: “The Year of Magical Thinking” - Yale Daily News
- The Snow in the Mountains Was Melting: A Review of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History - strandmagazine.co.uk
- Why Are Literary Critics Dismayed by Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Its Success? - Vanity Fair
- 8 Books to Read If You Loved THE SECRET HISTORY By Donna Tartt - Book Riot
- Donna Tartt is a master of Dark Academia style - RUSSH
- The enduring cult appeal of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, 30 years on - The Independent
- 8 Books To Read If You Like The Goldfinch - Times Now
- Juno Dawson: ‘The Secret History by Donna Tartt is a deeply vibey novel’ - The Guardian
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – review - The Guardian
- The Goldfinch is a bad movie because it is based on a deeply flawed book - vox.com
- 10 Fascinating Facts About Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History' - Mental Floss
- Book Review: 'The Goldfinch' by Donna Tartt - Your Observer
- ‘The Goldfinch,’ a Dickensian Novel by Donna Tartt - The New York Times
- Sex, Drugs, and Bestsellers: The Legend of the Literary Brat Pack - Harper's BAZAAR
- Money, Madness, Cocaine and Literary Genius: An Oral History of the 1980s' Most Decadent College - Esquire
- Donna Tartt’s Typewritten Valedictorian Speech - Literary Hub
- Ann Patchett: By the Book (Published 2013) - The New York Times
- Exclusive | Donna Tartt’s lawyer sends off warning letters over Bennington College podcast - pagesix.com
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?