How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

Colombe Schneck on Writing Against Shame and Solitude

By Colombe Schneck | May 14, 2024

Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

Hari Kunzru! Freud! System of a Down (the memoir)! 26 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 14, 2024

Meet the novelists who are re-analyzing HBO's <em>Girls.</em>

Meet the novelists who are re-analyzing HBO's Girls.

By Brittany Allen | May 13, 2024

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

Saying the Unsayable, and Listening to Silence: Jon Fosse on How Writing Plays Transformed His Craft

From the Author’s Nobel Lecture in “A Silent Language”

By Jon Fosse | May 13, 2024

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

“I have become a text that revises themself, that will revise themself every day, every day until the last day.”

By Bee Sacks | May 13, 2024

Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

Jennifer Leigh Selig on Deep Memoir

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | May 13, 2024

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Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

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Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
“Ah, Fuck Em.”

By Alice McDermott | May 10, 2024

Lolita is Nabokov: On the Parallel Histories of the Writer and His Most Famous Character

By Monika Zgustova | May 10, 2024

Karen Tei Yamashita on Seeking Stories in the Soil

Karen Tei Yamashita on Seeking Stories in the Soil

“Undo the shame of forgetting. Dig and sift through dark soil. Feel its texture.”

By Karen Tei Yamashita | May 10, 2024

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Colm Tóibín, Sathnam Sanghera, Kaliane Bradley, and More

By Book Marks | May 10, 2024

Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

Sitting at the Cool Table: Christina Cooke and Marissa Higgins on the (Supposed) Renaissance of Queer Lit

The Authors of “Broughtupsy” and “A Good Happy Girl” in Conversation

By Christina Cooke | May 10, 2024

Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

Claire Messud on Blurring Family History and Fiction

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 9, 2024

A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

The Author of “Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances” in Talks to Brian Gresko

By Brian Gresko | May 9, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Can a novel be both blunt and exquisite?”

By Book Marks | May 9, 2024

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

Simon Van Booy on Letting Go and Following the Story Wherever It Takes Him

By Simon Van Booy | May 9, 2024

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