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The Freedom to Imagine: Ayad Akhtar on the Importance of Salman Rushdie’s Life and Work

The Freedom to Imagine: Ayad Akhtar on the Importance of Salman Rushdie’s Life and Work

From Akhtar’s Introduction of Rushdie at Last Night’s PEN Gala

By Ayad Akhtar | May 19, 2023

Rita Chang-Eppig on How to Write a Fight Scene

Rita Chang-Eppig on How to Write a Fight Scene

“Reading about a fight may not be as exciting as watching one, but it can be so much more satisfying.”

By Rita Chang-Eppig | May 19, 2023

Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

Also, She Would Still Be Scheduling Dog Surgeries If She Wasn't a Writer

By Literary Hub | May 19, 2023

Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

“Though our loss is still hers, she has a profound loss that is all her own.”

By Cassandra Jackson | May 19, 2023

It’s Very, Very Complicated: A Reading List of Friendships That Are All Over the Place

It’s Very, Very Complicated: A Reading List of Friendships That Are All Over the Place

Ore Agbaje-Williams Recommends F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elena Ferrante and More

By Ore Agbaje-Williams | May 19, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring new titles by Emma Cline, Jonathan Eig, T. C. Boyle, Samantha Irby, and More

By Book Marks | May 19, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

At the Heart of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write

By Daisy Alpert Florin | May 19, 2023

How Screenwriting Can Help You Write Stronger Fiction

By Crystal Smith Paul | May 19, 2023

The Person Who Wrote It Is Eating Ramen: Samantha Irby on Writing for TV

By The Maris Review | May 18, 2023

Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

Jolene McIlwain on Rural America, Songwriting, and Oral Storytelling

By Jolene McIlwain | May 18, 2023

Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?

Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?

A Survey of Murakami Reimaginings, from Burning to Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By Ryan Bedsaul | May 18, 2023

Announcing the Winners of the 92 Street Y Discovery Contest

Announcing the Winners of the 92 Street Y Discovery Contest

Read the Winning Poems Selected by Judges Kaveh Akbar, Tracie Morris and Simone White

By Literary Hub | May 18, 2023

The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

The Stakes of the Writers’ Strike: Benjamin Percy on the WGA Walkout, Streaming, and the Survival of Screenwriting

in Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 18, 2023

Legally Literary: A Reading List of Lawyers (or Law Students) Turned Writers

Legally Literary: A Reading List of Lawyers (or Law Students) Turned Writers

Deepa Varadajan Recommends Elizabeth Strout, Mohsin Hamid, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and Many More

By Deepa Varadarajan | May 18, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The result is both addictive and slightly sickening.”

By Book Marks | May 18, 2023

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

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