• Literary Criticism

    new books tuesday

    8 new books for your reading pleasure.

    By Katie Yee  November 29, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    “It’s Kind of Embarrassing to Admit the Depth of My Obsession” Ashley Hutson on Watching Three’s Company and Writing Her Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  November 29, 2022
    #MeToo

    On Women Talking and the Unreliable Narrators of Post-MeToo Literature

    By Emma Staffaroni  November 28, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Live from Writers for Readers in Kansas City: Alexander Chee on Editing Best American Essays 2022

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 23, 2022
    Literary History

    How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

    By Lyndall Gordon  November 23, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Coco Picard on Trusting Narrative Magic

    By I'm a Writer But   November 23, 2022
    Otherppl

    “It’s Actually Pretty Simple.” Kyle Spencer on How People Form Their Politics

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 23, 2022
    What to Watch

    Rereading White Noise and Feeling Deep Dread… For Noah Baumbach’s Adaptation

    By Ken Gordon  November 22, 2022
    The Internet

    How to Gain a Gazillion Followers Online, Taco Bell Quarterly-Style

    By MM Carrigan  November 22, 2022
    Novellas

    The Antidote to Everything: Kenneth C. Davis on the Balm of Short Novels

    By Kenneth C. Davis  November 22, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Novelist Katy Hays on What Tarot Tells Us About Ourselves

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Ada Calhoun and Maud Newton on the Revelations We Gain From Writing

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Billy Porter: It’s Never Easy to Be Yourself

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Sandra Cisneros and Manuel Muñoz on “the Undocumented of American Letters”

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Jean Hanff Korelitz, and Dani Shapiro on the Secrets in Our Pasts That Can Break Us Apart

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Hernan Diaz, Jamie Ford, Jill Bialosky, and Karen Joy Fowler on When Writers Admit What They Don’t Know About Their Characters

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
    new books tuesday

    10 new books to keep you company on your holiday weekend travels.

    By Katie Yee  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Robert Pinsky on the Distinctly American Tradition of Improvisation

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 21, 2022
    Beyond the Page

    Jennifer Egan: There’s No Way Out From the Collective Consciousness

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  November 21, 2022
    Write-minded

    Xochitl Gonzalez on Radical Fiction Packaged as a Trojan Horse

    By Write-minded   November 21, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Jonathan Evison, Jess Walter, Jonathan Ames, and Antoine Wilson Try to Learn From Each Other’s Writing Process

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 21, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Watch the National Book Award Finalists and Winners at the Miami Book Fair

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 21, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  November 18, 2022
    Jane Austen

    How Jane Austen Almost Walked Away From Writing

    By Anna Beer  November 18, 2022
    Songwriting

    Someone Has to Say It: Bob Dylan’s New Book Would Have Been Better as a Podcast

    By Natalia Holtzman  November 18, 2022
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