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Joan Didion: Why I Write

Joan Didion: Why I Write

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means."

By Joan Didion | January 26, 2021

On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | January 26, 2021

How Do We Write About Political Crisis and Personal Conflict?

How Do We Write About Political Crisis and Personal Conflict?

Carys Davies Outlines the Process of Writing Her Latest Novel

By Carys Davies | January 26, 2021

Jason Diamond Reads from <br><em>The Sprawl</em>

Jason Diamond Reads from
The Sprawl

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | January 26, 2021

Mateo Askaripour on <em>Sorry to Bother You</em> and Giving Up the Scarcity Mindset

Mateo Askaripour on Sorry to Bother You and Giving Up the Scarcity Mindset

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | January 26, 2021

What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

Soledad Fox Maura on Rethinking Genre

By Soledad Fox Maura | January 25, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

What James Baldwin Taught Nikky Finney About the Poet’s Responsibility to the Living

By The Quarantine Tapes | January 25, 2021

Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

By Eman Quotah | January 25, 2021

Peter Ho Davies on Writing a Book That Hovers Between Fiction and Fact

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | January 25, 2021

The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

Ed Tarkington Reckons with a Fraught Literary History

By Ed Tarkington | January 22, 2021

Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

Matthew Redmond on Fragments of Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and More

By Matthew Redmond | January 22, 2021

Katrina vanden Heuvel: ‘A Great Nation Doesn’t Need to Boast’

Katrina vanden Heuvel: ‘A Great Nation Doesn’t Need to Boast’

In Conversation with Walter Mosley on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | January 22, 2021

Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

The Author of Floaters in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | January 22, 2021

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with <em>The Great Gatsby</em>

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with The Great Gatsby

David Stuart MacLean Charts the Path to His Gatsby-Inspired Novel

By David Stuart MacLean | January 21, 2021

Mateo Askaripour on the Manifest Destiny of Startups

Mateo Askaripour on the Manifest Destiny of Startups

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | January 21, 2021

Paul Coates on Finding Hope—and Doubt—in the Present Moment

Paul Coates on Finding Hope—and Doubt—in the Present Moment

In Conversation with Walter Mosley on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | January 21, 2021

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