Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

“This writer wants to show us that the ugly side of life is life’s necessary hemisphere.”

By Kirsty Gunn | February 5, 2024

A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

Remembering the Queer Modernist Poet on Her Sesquicentennial

By Ed Simon | February 5, 2024

Trouble at the Southern Border: How US Immigration Policy and Foreign Policy Are Inextricably Linked

Trouble at the Southern Border: How US Immigration Policy and Foreign Policy Are Inextricably Linked

Jonathan Blitzer on the Origins and Repercussions of the Current Humanitarian Crisis at the Border

By Jonathan Blitzer | February 5, 2024

Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

Erik Wood Considers His Uncle’s “Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes”

By Erik Wood | February 5, 2024

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

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

By Memoir Nation | February 5, 2024

Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

”Death, and learning how to end a story: again, the woods made him into a writer.”

By Rick Bass | February 2, 2024

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Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

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On What We Do (And Don’t) Understand About Tornadoes

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Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Diana Khoi Nguyen is Reading Now and Next

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Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque

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