When You Just Need a Good Cry: A Reading List

When You Just Need a Good Cry: A Reading List

Kristan Higgins Recommends Joan Didion, Paul Kalanithi, and More

By Kristan Higgins | June 11, 2021

Walter Mosley on Learning to Love Rewriting

Walter Mosley on Learning to Love Rewriting

"The beauty of life is in its flaws and how you deal with them."

By Walter Mosley | June 11, 2021

Golden Voice Narrator Michael Crouch on the Task of Capturing a Character’s Voice

Golden Voice Narrator Michael Crouch on the Task of Capturing a Character’s Voice

In Conversation with Jo Reed on Behind the Mic

By Behind the Mic | June 11, 2021

The Ultimate Summer 2021 Reading List

The Ultimate Summer 2021 Reading List

All the Big Books From All the Big Lists

By Emily Temple | June 10, 2021

How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

How Harold Pinter Revolutionized the Cinematic Period Piece

Adam Scovell on One of the Playwright’s Many Legacies

By Adam Scovell | June 10, 2021

How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring <em>Zami</em> Spoke My Truth Into Existence

How Audre Lorde’s Genre-Blurring Zami Spoke My Truth Into Existence

Jamika Ajalon on Biomythography, Friendships, and Queer Identity

By Jamika Ajalon | June 10, 2021

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Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 10, 2021

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

By Alice Jolly | June 10, 2021

The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

By E.J. Levy | June 10, 2021

Katherine Heiny on Letting the Character Get What She Wants... in a Roundabout Way

Katherine Heiny on Letting the Character Get What She Wants... in a Roundabout Way

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | June 10, 2021

When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

Paula McLain Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 10, 2021

On the Etymology and Reverberating Human History of the Color Green

On the Etymology and Reverberating Human History of the Color Green

Gillian Osborne Considers Color Theory and William Blake’s “The Ecchoing Green”

By Gillian Osborne | June 9, 2021

WATCH: Hala Alyan, Te-Ping Chen, Joshua Mohr, and Thomas Grattan at the Franklin Park Reading Series

WATCH: Hala Alyan, Te-Ping Chen, Joshua Mohr, and Thomas Grattan at the Franklin Park Reading Series

Hosted by Marae Hart

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 9, 2021

On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

What Ron Hogan Learned from Conan, Nanette, Mary Oliver, and More

By Ron Hogan | June 9, 2021

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Aminatta Forna Moves Through a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness

By Aminatta Forna | June 9, 2021

Kristen Arnett: “I Always Want to Write Something Messy. What’s the Fun of Being Clean All the Time?”

Kristen Arnett: “I Always Want to Write Something Messy. What’s the Fun of Being Clean All the Time?”

This Week from the Thresholds Podcast with Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | June 9, 2021

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