How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell <em>Infinite Jest</em>

How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell Infinite Jest

Rachel Greenwald Smith on the Treacherous Common Territories of Literary Culture and Capitalism

By Rachel Greenwald Smith | August 20, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: Nightboat Books

Interview with an Indie Press: Nightboat Books

On Publishing Difficult-to-Classify Books

By Corinne Segal | August 20, 2021

When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

Jonathan Wells on Finding a Way Back to Writing on His Own Terms

By Jonathan Wells | August 20, 2021

Megan Abbott on the Dark Underworld of Ballet

Megan Abbott on the Dark Underworld of Ballet

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 19, 2021

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

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WATCH: Nimmi Gowrinathan in Conversation with John Freeman

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

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What Makes a Great First Sentence?

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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

On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic

On Learning to Take Author Photos Remotely During the Pandemic

Beowulf Sheehan Adapts His Art to a New Normal

By Beowulf Sheehan | August 18, 2021

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

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

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | August 18, 2021

When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have <br>Missed in July

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

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