Red Shoes, Pink Dresses, and the Glamour of the Whiting Awards
In Which a Man Threatens to Eat a Giant Loaf of Bread
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
"If I traveled to one of these distant Americas, I had to reimagine them"
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
"When you are sold that many times, the world is teaching you to pay attention"
Spaceman of Bohemia
Jaroslav Kalfar
“My name is Jakub Procházka. This is a common name. My parents wanted a simple life for me, a life of good comradeship with my country and my neighbors, a life of service to a world united in socialism. Then the Iron Curtain tumbled with a dull thud and the bogeyman invaded my country with his consumer love and free markets.”
Instead of Writing, I Watched Trains
Owen Laukkanen on the Procrastination that Helped Him Find his Mojo
The Lost Daughter Collective
Lindsey Drager
“A daughter seems a simple thing. She bears purpose and potential, like a key or a road. The Barber’s Alice was drawn to fairy tales, and his favorite to retell dealt with that mysterious waving mass that burgeons from the skull.”
A Brief Literary History of Birth Control
From George Orwell and John Updike to Grace Metalious and Alice Munro
If Fiction Changes the World, It’s Going to Be YA
the kids aren’t just all right—they’re better than us
Geoff Dyer on Obsession vs. Addiction, and the Unpredictability of Life
In Conversation with Paul Holdengraber
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