Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

Algren Got Fired, Banks Made a Friend

By Adam Colman | January 11, 2023

Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

Surrounded by Wonders: Pico Iyer in Kashmir

"Kashmir became a shorthand for the contention that festers between neighbors whom Empire has cynically divided."

By Pico Iyer | January 11, 2023

Keri Blakinger on What It’s Like to Interview Someone on Death Row

Keri Blakinger on What It’s Like to Interview Someone on Death Row

This Week on Twitterverse, a Show About Tweets and the Writers Who Send Them

By Twitterverse | January 10, 2023

Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

Unguilty Pleasures: My Year of Reading Romance Novels

Katie Fustich on Finding New Possibilities in a Misunderstood Genre

By Katie Fustich | January 9, 2023

Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

Who Is the “Noted Writer” Buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery?

Nicky Beer Searches For a Long-Lost Writer in the Family

By Nicky Beer | January 9, 2023

The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

The Sanctity of a Journal: On Private Writing in the Age of Public Content

“What stories do we owe each other—ourselves?”

By Rachel Schwartzmann | January 6, 2023

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Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World

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On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

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On Translation and the (Temporary) Inheritance of Trauma

On Translation and the (Temporary) Inheritance of Trauma

Yardenne Greenspan Considers What It Means to Truly Inhabit an Author’s Work

By Yardenne Greenspan | January 4, 2023

Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

"It’s possible that carrying around cracks in the first foundation... helps a person accept a cosmos flawed at its core."

By Ken Babstock | January 4, 2023

On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

V.V. Ganeshananthan on Writing About Sri Lanka

By V.V. Ganeshananthan | January 4, 2023

Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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How Zora Neale Hurston’s Study of Hoodoo Helped Me Grieve

How Zora Neale Hurston’s Study of Hoodoo Helped Me Grieve

Tracey Rose Peyton on Making Peace With Her Father

By Tracey Rose Peyton | January 3, 2023

“My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee

“My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee

“I’m Ruslana from Severodonetsk, a now disappearing city.”

By José Vergara | January 3, 2023

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

The Forty Year Kiss: Nickolas Butler on Why People-Watching Is Writing

“All novelists are spies or should be.”

By Nickolas Butler | December 23, 2022

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