What Does It Mean When We Call Women Girls?

What Does It Mean When We Call Women Girls?

Robin Wasserman on the Unstoppable Wave of "Girl"-Titled Books

By Robin Wasserman | May 18, 2016

How Writers Will Steal Your Life and Use it For Fiction

How Writers Will Steal Your Life and Use it For Fiction

A Brief History of Plagiarizing Identity, From Leo Tolstoy to Salman Rushdie

By Richard Cohen | May 18, 2016

How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

David Foster Wallace's New Sentimentality Got Old, Fast

By Emily Harnett | May 17, 2016

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

A Poet of the Night, and Love, and Terror, and Tragedy

By Enrique Vila-Matas | May 17, 2016

How Katherine Dunn's <em>Geek Love</em> Saved Me

How Katherine Dunn's Geek Love Saved Me

For Helena Fitzgerald, the Right Book Came Along at the Right Time

By Helena Fitzgerald | May 17, 2016

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

Bethanne Patrick on Careerism, Criticism, and a Life in Books

By Bethanne Patrick | May 13, 2016

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Luis J. Rodriguez: LA is a Great Poetry Town.

By David L. Ulin | May 13, 2016

Even Dostoyevsky Hated Literary Readings

By Daniel Torday | May 12, 2016

The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

By Anne Boyd Rioux | May 12, 2016

Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

When A Plot is Handed to You on a Petri Dish, Write It

By Eileen Pollack | May 10, 2016

Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

What it Means To Be Chekhovian: Lively, Innovative, Experimental

By Peter Constantine | May 9, 2016

No More Dead Mothers: Reading, Writing, and Grieving

No More Dead Mothers: Reading, Writing, and Grieving

After Three Novels, Hannah Gersen Gets Through the Loss of Her Mother

By Hannah Gersen | May 6, 2016

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

Pamela Erens, Rivka Glachen, Julia Fierro, and writing about motherhood

By Jordan Rosenfeld | May 6, 2016

Why Does Literature Hate Babies?

Why Does Literature Hate Babies?

On the Sometimes Reciprocal Hostility Between Writing and Children

By Rivka Galchen | May 6, 2016

How Judy Blume Changed My Life

How Judy Blume Changed My Life

Lily King on the Book That Got Her Through Her Parents' Divorce

By Lily King | May 4, 2016

Writers, The Loneliest Artists of All

Writers, The Loneliest Artists of All

Michele Filgate on Solitude, Melissa Broder, and Olivia Laing

By Michele Filgate | May 4, 2016

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