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Julie Otsuka on Writing From and Into Memories

Julie Otsuka on Writing From and Into Memories

"These boxes were my inheritance, the stuff out of which my novels are made."

By Julie Otsuka | August 8, 2023

"Writing happens when it happens": On Balancing Motherhood and Being an Author

Prudence Peiffer on Art and Life

By Prudence Peiffer | August 7, 2023

<em>Black Boy</em> and Me: How Richard Wright Inspired Omer Aziz

Black Boy and Me: How Richard Wright Inspired Omer Aziz

"I will always look in my rearview reverentially, owing something deep in my heart to Richard."

By Omer Aziz | August 7, 2023

On Being a Writer and a Mother to Children Who Don't Love to Read

On Being a Writer and a Mother to Children Who Don't Love to Read

Aimie K. Runyan on Instilling a Lifelong Love of Reading In Her Children... on Their Terms

By Aimie K. Runyan | August 4, 2023

Campbell McGrath on Reading Poetry Aloud

Campbell McGrath on Reading Poetry Aloud

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | August 4, 2023

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

"If I were writing to her now, which I suppose I am, I would tell her that I will remember her."

By Julie Schumacher | August 2, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
  • Bad Bad Girl
  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

By Bee Sacks | August 1, 2023

How I Became a Modern Bootlegger

By John Koopman | July 27, 2023

Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

By Mihret Sibhat | July 26, 2023

Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

“The last and arguably the most successful of the editor-publishers.”

By Jonathan Galassi | July 25, 2023

The Burden of Truth: Fictionalizing My Father’s Years at a Federal Leprosy Treatment Center

The Burden of Truth: Fictionalizing My Father’s Years at a Federal Leprosy Treatment Center

Wendy Chin-Tanner on the Dual Gaze Required to Write a Novel Inspired by True Events

By Wendy Chin-Tanner | July 25, 2023

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

“Literature has infinite potential. What could be wrong with that?”

By Wang Xiaobo | July 25, 2023

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

Hannah Meyer Considers the Power of Destructive Desire
in Fiction and Life

By Hannah Meyer | July 24, 2023

Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer

Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer

Efrén Ordóñez Garza on Writing as Practice, Lifestyle, and Identity

By Efrén Ordóñez Garza | July 24, 2023

On Grief, Pizza, and the Power of Food to Evoke Memory

On Grief, Pizza, and the Power of Food to Evoke Memory

Adam Dalva Remembers His Brother

By Adam Dalva | July 24, 2023

Nishanth Injam on Leaving India, the Misery of Tech Work and the Subversive Nature of Memories

Nishanth Injam on Leaving India, the Misery of Tech Work and the Subversive Nature of Memories

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 20, 2023

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