What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

Sonya Bilocerkowycz on Guilt, Ego, and Speculative Nonfiction

By Sonya Bilocerkowycz | January 9, 2020

Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

T Kira Madden, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, and Others
Describe Their Turning Points

By Benjamin Schaefer | January 8, 2020

Why We Love <br>Untranslatable Words

Why We Love
Untranslatable Words

David Shariatmadari on the Allure of Undefinable Concepts

By David Shariatmadari | January 8, 2020

Chuck Palahniuk on the Importance of Not Boring<br> Your Reader

Chuck Palahniuk on the Importance of Not Boring
Your Reader

The Author of Fight Club Finds Parallels Between Film and Prose

By Chuck Palahniuk | January 8, 2020

What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

Yvette Benavides on a Childhood Source of Identity,
Freedom, and Creativity

By Yvette Benavides | January 8, 2020

Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

Sarah Moss on Ghost Walls, Violence Against Women, and Social Structures

The Author of Ghost Wall in Conversation with Reading Women's Kendra Winchester

By Reading Women | January 8, 2020

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Miranda Popkey: What Happens If You Start Thinking of Your Life as a Narrative?

By Kristin Iversen | January 7, 2020

On the Short Stories That Inspired a Russian Czar to Free the Serfs

By Daniyal Mueenuddin | January 7, 2020

Chuck Palahniuk on His Childhood Love of Ellery Queen and Writing in a Good Mood

By Literary Hub | January 7, 2020

On the Darker Standalone Novels from the <em>Baby-Sitters Club</em> Author

On the Darker Standalone Novels from the Baby-Sitters Club Author

This Week on The NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | January 7, 2020

Has African Migration to the US Led to a Literary Renaissance?

Has African Migration to the US Led to a Literary Renaissance?

Yogita Goyal Considers “Afropolitan” Literature

By Yogita Goyal | January 6, 2020

At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

At the Literary Intersection of Climate Disaster, Apocalypse, and Folk Horror

Tobias Carroll on Books by Lucie McKnight Hardy, Claire Colman,
Stephen Graham Jones, and Jennifer Givhan

By Tobias Carroll | January 6, 2020

Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

Sean Adams on the Community of Writers and
Its Accompanying Pressures

By Sean Adams | January 6, 2020

Tayari Jones on the Necessary American History of Ann Petry's <em>The Street</em>

Tayari Jones on the Necessary American History of Ann Petry's The Street

“Crossing the line between belles lettres and pulp, Petry is
a pioneer of the literary thriller.”

By Tayari Jones | January 6, 2020

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Feminist Press

The FP Staff Shares Favorite Titles From the Last Half Century

By Literary Hub | January 6, 2020

The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Three

The Booksellers’ Year in Reading: Part Three

We Asked the Best Readers We Know What Books
Stayed With Them This Year

By Literary Hub | December 30, 2019

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