No One Cares About Your Dreams—Unless You're a Famous Writer

No One Cares About Your Dreams—Unless You're a Famous Writer

Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Sylvia Plath and more on their nighttime visions

By Emily Temple | November 1, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Meet National Book Award Finalist Erica Armstrong Dunbar

The author of Never Caught on music, Oprah, and teaching

By Emily Temple | November 1, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Ibi Zoboi

Meet National Book Award Finalist Ibi Zoboi

The author of American Street on robots, movies, and the American Dream

By Emily Temple | November 1, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Rita Williams-Garcia

Meet National Book Award Finalist Rita Williams-Garcia

The author of Clayton Byrd Goes Underground on music in life and writing

By Emily Temple | October 31, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Erika L. Sánchez

Meet National Book Award Finalist Erika L. Sánchez

The author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter loves Larry Levis

By Emily Temple | October 31, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Elana K. Arnold

Meet National Book Award Finalist Elana K. Arnold

The author of What Girls Are Made Of on teen girls, twitter, and Agatha Christie

By Emily Temple | October 30, 2017

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By Emily Temple | October 30, 2017

33 Joan Didion Book Covers, Ranked

By Emily Temple | October 27, 2017

6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing

By Emily Temple | October 25, 2017

George Saunders Wins the 2017 Man Booker Prize

George Saunders Wins the 2017 Man Booker Prize

Complete with £50,000 and Everlasting International Glory

By Emily Temple | October 17, 2017

Scary Literary Fiction for People Who Hate Horror

Scary Literary Fiction for People Who Hate Horror

But still want some chills and thrills in this, our spookiest season

By Emily Temple | October 17, 2017

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

"I got a little bored after a time. I mean, the road seemed to be awfully long."

By Emily Temple | October 16, 2017

Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's <em>Invisible Cities</em>

Art Inspired by Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities

"Elsewhere is a negative mirror."

By Emily Temple | October 13, 2017

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

A Selection of Virginia Woolf's Most Savage Insults

Marmoreal, Uncooked, Inarticulate, Pimpled, Unrefined, Limp

By Emily Temple | October 12, 2017

The 2017 MacArthur

The 2017 MacArthur "Genius" Grant Winners in Literature

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jesmyn Ward, and Annie Baker: Now Official Geniuses

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

Katherine Mansfield on the Thrilling Joy of Creation

and your knees become apples, too?"">"When you paint apples do you feel that your breasts
and your knees become apples, too?"

By Emily Temple | October 11, 2017

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