How Should You Name Your Characters?

How Should You Name Your Characters?

Alison Stine on Conveying Setting, Style and Identity through One Important Word

By Alison Stine | October 26, 2021

Ruth Ozeki on Writing About the Respectful Relationships with Material Objects

Ruth Ozeki on Writing About the Respectful Relationships with Material Objects

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | October 26, 2021

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of October

A Month of Literary Listening

By Book Marks | October 26, 2021

15 new books coming out today.

15 new books coming out today.

By Katie Yee | October 26, 2021

W. Ralph Eubanks Takes a Journey Through the Literary History of Mississippi

W. Ralph Eubanks Takes a Journey Through the Literary History of Mississippi

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | October 26, 2021

An ode to the brilliant, hilarious opening scene of Zadie Smith's <em>White Teeth</em>.

An ode to the brilliant, hilarious opening scene of Zadie Smith's White Teeth.

By Snigdha Koirala | October 25, 2021

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Lauren Groff on Maintaining the “Electric Jolt” of an Idea While Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | October 25, 2021

Notes on Queerness and Camp in Crime Fiction

By Tice Cin | October 25, 2021

Battle Royale: 6 Books That Take on the Rich World of Wrestling

By Gene Kwak | October 25, 2021

Elaine Feeney Recommends John McGahern, Ralph Ellison, and <em>Black Beauty</em>

Elaine Feeney Recommends John McGahern, Ralph Ellison, and Black Beauty

Rapid-Fire Book Recs From the Author of As You Were

By Book Marks | October 25, 2021

Samantha Silva on Writing a Novel About Mary Wollstonecraft

Samantha Silva on Writing a Novel About Mary Wollstonecraft

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | October 25, 2021

Watching a Magazine, Reading a Movie: On Wes Anderson’s <em>The French Dispatch</em>

Watching a Magazine, Reading a Movie: On Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

In Which Olivia Rutigliano “Reads” the Director’s Oeuvre

By Olivia Rutigliano | October 22, 2021

5 Audiobooks to Catch Up on the 2021 Pulitzer Winners and Finalists

5 Audiobooks to Catch Up on the 2021 Pulitzer Winners and Finalists

James Tate Hill Recommends Louise Erdrich, Marcia Chatelain, and More

By James Tate Hill | October 22, 2021

Strout, Solnit, Porter: Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Strout, Solnit, Porter: Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles from Elizabeth Strout, Anthony Horowitz, Rebecca Solnit, Billy Porter, and more

By Book Marks | October 22, 2021

Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her)

Mary Gaitskill on Borrowing From Real Life in Writing (and the Dreams That Guided Her)

How the Author of Veronica Tries to Honor the World

By Mary Gaitskill | October 22, 2021

David Shariatmadari on What Etymology Can Teach Us About Culture (and Happiness)

David Shariatmadari on What Etymology Can Teach Us About Culture (and Happiness)

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | October 22, 2021

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