Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Tim Wirkus on the Tension Between What is Anticipated and What is Delivered

By Tim Wirkus | January 31, 2018

Paris's Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

Paris's Literary Hotel, a Room (and Writer) for Each Letter of the Alphabet

(But Are You Sure You Want to Stay in the Kafka Room?)

By Matt Grant | January 31, 2018

Nonfiction As Queer Aesthetic: Discovering Myself, Discovering My Art

Nonfiction As Queer Aesthetic: Discovering Myself, Discovering My Art

Dave Madden on Recognizing the Possibility of Life and Narrative

By Dave Madden | January 30, 2018

How Nursing Led Me Back to Writing

How Nursing Led Me Back to Writing

Emma Glass Rediscovers the Importance of Storytelling in an Unlikely Place

By Emma Glass | January 29, 2018

Ursula K. Le Guin's Best Life Advice

Ursula K. Le Guin's Best Life Advice

America's Greatest Writer Has Died

By Emily Temple | January 24, 2018

10 Other Literary Writers We'd Love to See with Weekly Columns

10 Other Literary Writers We'd Love to See with Weekly Columns

Who Will Follow Elena Ferrante? (Rabih Alameddine? Maggie Nelson? Please?)

By Emily Temple | January 23, 2018

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How Being a Librarian Makes Me a Better Writer

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How to Write a #MeToo Story

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How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

How Alice B. Toklas Found her Voice Through Food

On Writing Her Own Cookbook, After Gertrude Stein

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I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir

I Am Different Now from the Person I Wrote in My Memoir

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By Molly Caro May | January 18, 2018

Read Susan Sontag's Love Letter to Borges, Written 10 Years After His Death

Read Susan Sontag's Love Letter to Borges, Written 10 Years After His Death

"We are still learning from you. We are still imitating you."

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Who Gets to Write About Gentrification?

Who Gets to Write About Gentrification?

Naima Coster Writes from the Center, Not the Margins

By Naima Coster | January 16, 2018

Dear Rick Moody: Half My Family Knows the Truth About Me

Dear Rick Moody: Half My Family Knows the Truth About Me

A Son Wonders About Coming Out to His Mother

By Rick Moody | January 12, 2018

Do Audio Books Count As Reading?

Do Audio Books Count As Reading?

And Other Pernicious Questions That Arise for Visually Impaired Book-Lovers

By James Tate Hill | January 11, 2018

The Child-Poet Genius of Brooklyn

The Child-Poet Genius of Brooklyn

On the Prodigious Poetic Talents of Nathalia Crane

By Ann Hulbert | January 9, 2018

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