How to Read Any Book as a Sacred Text

How to Read Any Book as a Sacred Text

Vanessa Zoltan Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | August 19, 2021

Sam Cohen on Creating a Conceit of Sarahs

Sam Cohen on Creating a Conceit of Sarahs

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | August 19, 2021

WATCH: Nimmi Gowrinathan in Conversation with John Freeman

WATCH: Nimmi Gowrinathan in Conversation with John Freeman

Hosted by Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 19, 2021

In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings

In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings

Jessie Gaynor on Leaving Room for the Possibility of Something Better

By Jessie Gaynor | August 18, 2021

What Makes a Great First Sentence?

What Makes a Great First Sentence?

Alice McDermott on the Importance of Starting a Story with Confidence

By Alice McDermott | August 18, 2021

On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

Yoon Choi Navigates the Complicated Path to Publication

By Yoon Choi | August 18, 2021

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On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic

By Beowulf Sheehan | August 18, 2021

Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

By Thresholds | August 18, 2021

When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
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On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | August 18, 2021

<em>Grendel</em> at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

“Grendel is funny, entertaining, troubling, and above all unruly; the novel refuses to behave.”

By Andrew DeYoung | August 17, 2021

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

Andrew Palmer Struggles with the Idea of Creating Characters (Partly) Based on an Ex

By Andrew Palmer | August 17, 2021

WATCH: Tod Goldberg on Being Ruled By Your Own Game

WATCH: Tod Goldberg on Being Ruled By Your Own Game

From the New Video Series Authors in the Tent, Hosted by Ona Russell

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 17, 2021

Fascist Fandom and Raging Incels: Tracing the Baffling Nerd-to-White-Nationalist Pipeline

Fascist Fandom and Raging Incels: Tracing the Baffling Nerd-to-White-Nationalist Pipeline

A.E. Osworth on Gamergate, Dr. Seuss, and the Linguistic Roots of the Word “Nerd”

By A.E. Osworth | August 16, 2021

Novels That Offer Easy Lessons Aren’t Worth Reading

Novels That Offer Easy Lessons Aren’t Worth Reading

Jo Hamya Against an Internet-Driven Book Culture

By Jo Hamya | August 16, 2021

The Cognitive Dissonance of America: Writing Through the Terror of Trumpland

The Cognitive Dissonance of America: Writing Through the Terror of Trumpland

Brian Castleberry Wants More Manifestoes and Fewer Myths

By Brian Castleberry | August 16, 2021

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