Census
Jesse Ball
“My brother Abram Ball died in 1998. He was twenty-four years old and had Down syndrome.”
Let’s No One Get Hurt
Jon Pineda
“If I concentrate, I can see where the river should be. It almost doesn’t exist, like the blue of skim milk.”
Essential Writing Advice from Virginia Woolf
"For heaven’s sake, publish nothing before you are thirty."
In the Endless Sameness of Prison, Writing Kept Me Human
"Paper, Any Paper, is About the Most Precious Article for a Political Prisoner"
How to Make Bookstore Appearances Ten Times More Interesting
Writer Craig Terlson Wants to Hear All Your Crazy Stories
Our American Rome: On the Case of Peter Thiel vs. Gawker
Andrew Keen Talks to Ryan Holiday About the Power of Conspiracy
“Fear is Good Quality Control.” Colson Whitehead on the Writer’s Life
"I'd rather have a fucked-up paragraph than no paragraph at all."
The World’s Smallest Publishing House: A Typewriter in a Bookstore
Michael Gustafson on Opening Literati Bookstore
Letter to an Emerging Indigenous Writer
"If you have the gift, you’re called upon to use it for the People."
Wendy Xu on the Impossible Complexity of Immigrant Love
Lives of the Poets: Peter Mishler in Conversation with the Author of Phrasis
How I Learned to Write About My Patients… Without Breaking Their Trust
Dr. Daniela Lamas on Consent, Empathy, and Obscuring Details
Feast Days
Ian MacKenzie
“Elizabeth Bishop, a person I admire, once lived in Brazil. She wrote a book about the country for the Life World Library. She fought with the publisher over points of style, and complained theatrically about it in letters to Robert Lowell.”
On Moderata Fonte’s Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice
Female Friendships and Single Women in The Merits of Women
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