How Do You Write a Historical Novel About Under-Documented Lives?

How Do You Write a Historical Novel About Under-Documented Lives?

Emily Hourican on Researching Her Novel, The Glorious Guinness Girls

By Emily Hourican | May 5, 2021

The Zuckerberg Effect: What We Get Wrong About <br>Startup Stories

The Zuckerberg Effect: What We Get Wrong About
Startup Stories

Ali Tamaseb in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 5, 2021

Death and the River: Close Reading a Classic Scots’ Border Ballad

Death and the River: Close Reading a Classic Scots’ Border Ballad

Why Ryan Bradley Can’t Stop Listening to “Annan Water”

By Ryan Bradley | May 5, 2021

"House of Air, Hours of Fire"

A Poem by Donika Kelly

By Donika Kelly | May 5, 2021

Natural Alchemy: On the Long History of Community Gardens in Indianapolis

Natural Alchemy: On the Long History of Community Gardens in Indianapolis

Angela Herrmann Considers Urban Agriculture and Food Production

By Angela Herrmann | May 5, 2021

Loan Le on Stepping Back into Those Emotional Teen Years to Write a YA Novel

Loan Le on Stepping Back into Those Emotional Teen Years to Write a YA Novel

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | May 5, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

Ross Mackenzie Reads from His Children’s Book, Feast of the Evernight

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | May 5, 2021

Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros, Read by Anthony Rey Perez

By Behind the Mic | May 5, 2021

Cross Your Legs, Stretch Your Hymen, Toss Your Ambition: The World According to Early “Marriage Classes”

By Danielle Dreilinger | May 4, 2021

Polar Nightmare: On One of the First International Expeditions of the Modern Era

Polar Nightmare: On One of the First International Expeditions of the Modern Era

Julian Sancton Considers the Belgica Expedition and Frederick Albert Cook as an Antihero

By Julian Sancton | May 4, 2021

How Malcolm X Inspired John Coltrane to Embrace Islamic Spirituality

How Malcolm X Inspired John Coltrane to Embrace Islamic Spirituality

Richard Brent Turner on A Love Supreme, Artistic Transformation, and the Black Arts Movement

By Richard Brent Turner | May 4, 2021

On the Time-Traveling Allusions of T.S. Eliot

On the Time-Traveling Allusions of T.S. Eliot

Elisa Gabbert Joins the Lit Century Podcast
with Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | May 4, 2021

How Doctors Tell Stories: Writing Through the Practice of Medicine

How Doctors Tell Stories: Writing Through the Practice of Medicine

Leslie Jamison and Suzanne Koven in Conversation

By Leslie Jamison | May 4, 2021

What the “Traditional Conception” of Physics Fails to Account For

What the “Traditional Conception” of Physics Fails to Account For

Chiara Marletto on the World-Opening Potential of Counterfactuals

By Chiara Marletto | May 4, 2021

How John Steinbeck’s Diaries Helped Me Write My Debut Novel

How John Steinbeck’s Diaries Helped Me Write My Debut Novel

Stacey Swann on Showing Up to Your Work No Matter What

By Stacey Swann | May 4, 2021

A Spaniard, a Frenchman, and Several Dead Russians: What I Owe Roberto Bolaño

A Spaniard, a Frenchman, and Several Dead Russians: What I Owe Roberto Bolaño

Chris Power on the Deep, Dark Influences Behind His Debut Novel

By Chris Power | May 4, 2021

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