A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

"I had created something—something that I’d honestly thought of as maybe a little brilliant but also maybe a little crazy."

By Pauls Toutonghi | October 5, 2023

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

Freda Love Smith Admits, "It's Kind of Hard to Read"

By Freda Love Smith | October 4, 2023

Nathan Hill on the Biggest Surprise of His Literary Career

Nathan Hill on the Biggest Surprise of His Literary Career

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | September 29, 2023

Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

Rhonda Watts Dives into the World of AustenTok

By Rhonda Watts | September 28, 2023

Searching For Agnes Martin

Searching For Agnes Martin

"Why does one artist fall in love with another’s art?"

By Brian Teare | September 28, 2023

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

"At the very moment that you take on the greatest act of caring, you discover how powerless you are."

By Molly Lynch | September 25, 2023

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All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

By Fae Myenne Ng | September 21, 2023

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

By Halle Hill | September 21, 2023

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

By Kate Roberts | September 19, 2023

"Your Meals In Life Are Numbered:" On Trying (and Failing) in Hollywood

Terrell Tannen Remembers His Friend, Novelist Jim Harrison

By Terrell Tannen | September 15, 2023

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

"It’s both mystical and humiliating how your novel can know things before you yourself know them."

By James Frankie Thomas | September 13, 2023

Navied Mahdavian on Confronting Environmental Degredation in the American West

Navied Mahdavian on Confronting Environmental Degredation in the American West

From His Graphic Memoir, This Country

By Navied Mahdavian | September 11, 2023

James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

"I’m writing this essay in the spirit of atonement. My ongoing biography should be revised to reflect this."

By James Ellroy | September 7, 2023

Brendan Shay Basham on the Similarities Between the Chef Life and the Writing Life

Brendan Shay Basham on the Similarities Between the Chef Life and the Writing Life

"Processes are a series of moments in passing."

By Brendan Shay Basham | September 7, 2023

"Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses": Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

The Author of Wednesday’s Child on Class, Money, Joy, and Luxury

By Yiyun Li | September 6, 2023

What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

Lightsey Darst on the Eternal, Fleeting Moments of New Motherhood

By Lightsey Darst | August 31, 2023

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