My White Whale Was a 50-Pound Fish in Martha’s Vineyard
Janet Messineo on the "Post Traumatic Fishing Disorder" After Losing a Big Fish
“In Dreams”
Brian Evenson
"He heard a buzzing in his head that he took at first to be a dream, but of course he no longer could dream. What was it then? Was it in his head after all? He called up his familiar. Almost immediately, the noise stopped."
The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign
From Colson Whitehead to Helen Phillips
On Peter Matthiessen’s Lifelong Fascination with Bigfoot
Did the Author of The Snow Leopard Have Another
Great Search on His Mind?
Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced
On Community, Violence, and Telling Stories of Trauma
In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything
Peter Hessler on the Lives of a Neighborhood, Seen Through the Trash
What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Stage Magicians
Gabriel Urza on the Literary Virtues of Defamiliarization
Working on a Novel About an Artist? Write Like a Painter
Kummer on Picasso, van Gogh, Hopper, and the
Painterly Art of Observation
The Red Daughter
John Burnham Schwartz
"Her face was staring up at me from the front page of The New York Times. On the right edge of the grainy black-and-white photograph taken at Kennedy Airport that day forty-four years earlier, I could just make out the crescent-shaped smudge that had been the tip of my elbow, before I’d been digitally amputated from the frame. For years a copy of the original picture, with me still included, had hung on the wall of my law office, signed “To Peter with love.” Clients would frequently remark on it, such was her fame in those days."
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