Jane Ciabattari

The 2022 Bay Area Book Festival in Six Acts

Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”

Emily St. John Mandel on the Narrative Possibilities of Time Travel

Jennifer Egan on Digital Technology and Creative Consciousness

Karen Joy Fowler on Decentering John Wilkes Booth in a Novel About His Family

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Lee Kravetz on Sylvia Plath, 1950s Psychiatry, and Confessional Poets

Julie Otsuka on Writing Memory Loss and the Power of the First-Person Plural

Brendan Slocumb on Mentorship, Antiquities Theft, and Being the Only Black Violin Player Around

Sequoia Nagamatsu on Writing the Grief and Connections of an Enduring Pandemic

Jabari Asim on Decolonized Souls, Black Love, and Writing the Past

“A Story That Wouldn’t Let Me Go.” Nadifa Mohamed on the 1952 Case at the Heart of Her Novel

Tom Bissell Talks Hollywood, Adaptation, and Feeling Like an “Actual Writer”

Meg Waite Clayton on Finding New Ways to Tell Old Stories

Perspective, Art, and Humanism: Understanding Resilience with Sarah Hall

Elizabeth Strout on Inhabiting Her Characters and Writing Directly

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