• Craft and Criticism

    new books tuesday

    16 new books to read while sitting directly in front of the fan.

    By Katie Yee  June 29, 2021
    Literary Icons

    Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

    By Charles McGrath  June 29, 2021
    Lit Century

    The Ongoingness of War in Ismail Kadare’s The General of the Dead Army

    By Lit Century   June 29, 2021
    Inspiration

    Thanks to the Plumber Who Slept in My Bed: How a Surprising Trespasser Inspired My First Novel

    By Beck Dorey-Stein  June 29, 2021
    Debut Authors

    How to Plan a Literary Drive-In: Or, the Pandemic’s Safest IRL Book Launch

    By Rachelle Toarmino  June 29, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Larissa Pham on Parasocial Relationships and Trying to Tell an Emotional Truth

    By Zack Graham  June 29, 2021
    Craft

    Tom Lin on the Importance of Conducting Literary Field Work

    By Jane Ciabattari  June 29, 2021
    Literary Connection

    Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and
    Heidi James

    By Heather Martin  June 28, 2021
    Romance

    Romance Novels for Hot-Everybody Summer

    By Erin Flanagan  June 28, 2021
    Memory

    Trust the Text: On Translating the Autobiographical Novel of Linda Boström Knausgård

    By Saskia Vogel  June 28, 2021
    Southern literature

    On the Unbearable Whiteness of Mainstream, Canonical Southern Literature 

    By Anjali Enjeti  June 28, 2021
    European Culture

    On the Enchanting, Hopelessly Beautiful Splendor and History of Venice

    By Orsola Casagrande  June 28, 2021
    The Internet

    The Rise of the Crypto Writer? On What Literary NFTs Might Mean for the Book World

    By Walker Caplan  June 25, 2021
    Interview with a Poet

    Nathaniel Mackey on Evoking John Coltrane and the Visual Delights of Poetry

    By Peter Mishler  June 25, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Matthew Salesses on Writing Plot and Cultural Context

    By Matthew Salesses  June 25, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Joshua Henkin on Writing for the Long Haul

    By The Literary Life  June 25, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press:
    Archipelago Books

    By Corinne Segal  June 25, 2021
    On Grief

    Writing My Dead Sister Through Fact and Fiction

    By Brian Phillip Whalen  June 25, 2021
    Behind the Mic

    A Conversation with Cassandra Campbell, Narrator of Where the Crawdads Sing

    By Behind the Mic   June 25, 2021
    New Books Network

    Kevin McIlvoy on the Periodic Reemergence of Ghost Stories

    By New Books Network  June 25, 2021
    Fatherhood

    Learning to Write About Your Own Children

    By Wayne Miller  June 24, 2021
    Cartoons

    Magnificent Obsession: On Black Humor and the Necessary Lessons I Learned as a Cartoonist

    By Charles Johnson  June 24, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Boston Review

    By Vanessa Willoughby  June 24, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Joan Silber on the Dangers of Parochialism

    By The Maris Review  June 24, 2021
    Psychology

    The Gift and Curse of Being a Truth-Teller: On Receiving an Autism Diagnosis as an Adult

    By Michelle Gallen  June 24, 2021
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