Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

“Every life is a novel for those who are curious enough.”

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2023

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

“Each day, I rub my eyes with poetry, bleary in foggy morning light.”

By Jane Wong | May 17, 2023

The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Natalie Eilbert is Reading Now and Next

Monica Youn, Mary Gaitskill, Patrick Radden Keefe, and More

By Diana Arterian | May 17, 2023

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

Caribbean Fiction Doesn’t Need to Be Altered for American Audiences

Breanne Mc Ivor Challenges Narrow Visions of Trinidad and Finds Liberation in Saying No to Simplifying Her Books for US Readers

By Breanne Mc Ivor | May 17, 2023

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of The Covenant of Water

By Jane Ciabattari | May 16, 2023

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s <em>The Black Unicorn</em>

Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | May 16, 2023

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Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

By Literary Hub | May 16, 2023

The Character-Revealing Power of Having a Play Within a Novel

By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith | May 16, 2023

Samantha Irby Shares Two Secrets About How She Does What She Does

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | May 16, 2023

“I Didn’t Want to Hear the Word Poetry.” Rupi Kaur on Life After <em>milk & honey</em>

“I Didn’t Want to Hear the Word Poetry.” Rupi Kaur on Life After milk & honey

This Week on the Talk Easy Podcast with Sam Fragoso

By Talk Easy | May 16, 2023

Matthew Binder on Making Sense of an Absurd World

Matthew Binder on Making Sense of an Absurd World

D. Foy Talks to the Author of Pure Cosmos Club

By D. Foy | May 16, 2023

Charif Shanahan: The Mystery Is the Clarity

Charif Shanahan: The Mystery Is the Clarity

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | May 16, 2023

Abraham Verghese on Medicine’s Innate Connection to Storytelling

Abraham Verghese on Medicine’s Innate Connection to Storytelling

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 15, 2023

Don’t Boss It Around: Abigail Thomas on Writer's Block, Confronting Fear, and the Joys of Aging

Don’t Boss It Around: Abigail Thomas on Writer's Block, Confronting Fear, and the Joys of Aging

The Author of Still Life at Eighty in Conversation with Mira Ptacin

By Mira Ptacin | May 15, 2023

Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

Like a Magic Trick: Tim Mohr on Being the Translator and Being Translated

On the intersection of German translation, East Bloc punk rock, and Hunter S. Thompson

By Tim Mohr | May 15, 2023

Telling the Same Story Differently: Terry McDonell on Writing About His Mother, Irma

Telling the Same Story Differently: Terry McDonell on Writing About His Mother, Irma

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 15, 2023

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