When the Wildfires of Your Novel Come to Life Around You
Julia Dixon Evans on the California Wildfire that Destroyed 282,000 Acres
Seeking the Sublime in Sonic Youth
How Their Iconic Sound Brings Us to the Edge of Our Own Mortality
Garry Winogrand’s Photographs Contain Entire Novels
Geoff Dyer on the Legendary Midcentury Photographer
The Mercy Seat
Elizabeth Winthrop
“When Lane comes out of the gas station store, the dog is waiting for him. It sits in the dusty crossroads, alert and eager, ears pricked and black tongue stiff between its panting jaws.”
10 Things You Should Know About Lists on the Internet
You Have to Read This (But You Don't Actually Have to Read This)
Meet the Finalists for the World’s Richest Short Story Award
Miranda July, Curtis Sittenfeld and More on Process, Advice, and Writer's Block
Poet Michael Wasson: From Kurt Cobain to Village Life in Japan
The Author of This American Ghost Talks to Peter Mishler
When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism
Two Novels That Interrogate the Principle of the Few Over the Many
Curtis Sittenfeld Has Been Reading Alice Munro for 15 Years
The Author of You Think It, I’ll Say It on the Books in Her Life
Dictionary Stories
Jez Burrows
“The English language has over five hundred thousand words, but John didn’t say a word all the way home.”
“The Village Idiot”
Majidah al-Outoum, Trans. by Alice Guthrie
“We awoke one morning to news of a death. The person we had lost was the one we used to call the Village Idiot—that buffoon who used to make us laugh and cry at the same time, that leaping, dancing ball of energy who would hurl himself around, wild with enthusiasm, stomping on our toes and crashing into us as he went gesticulating by.”
Jane Austen and the Timeless Tradition of Mansplaining
From Austen to Rebecca Solnit, Men Will Explain Things
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