On Writing, Parenthood and Trying to Stay a Little Wild
Laura Cronk on the Ways that Her Children Have and Haven't Changed Her Work
The Forgotten History of Florence’s Mixed-Race Medici
On the Double Assassination of a 16th-Century Duke
The Editor Inside My Head is a Cruel and Demanding S.O.B.
Michael Koryta on Craft and the Notes He Leaves for Himself
Ashes of Fiery Weather
Kathleen Donohoe
“Eileen and Sean stood on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Sterling Place in the crowd of onlookers. The tail of the plane was sticking up at an angle. UNITED, it said. The street was filled with debris from both the destroyed plane and the buildings it hit on the way down.”
Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview
On Form, Style, POV and Whether or Not It Really Happened...
How to Reject a Writer, and Other Advice For Editors
On Dealing with "Acid-Sucking Pieces of Illiterate Shit" and Holding the Poetry Editor's Penis
Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante and the Inner Workings of The New Yorker
Melinda Harvey in Conversation with the Translator of the Neapolitan Novels
Froelich’s Ladder
Jamie Duclos-Yourdon
"It was a June morning in 1871 when Froelich disappeared. Dawn had erased the stars from the sky, and a rosy shoal of clouds was swimming toward the coast."
Peter Ho Davies on Moving to America and Mixing History with Invention
An Interview with the Author of The Fortunes
Becoming a Writer Means Becoming a Cliché
Odie Lindsey on Quitting a Job, Moving to Italy, and Writing a Book
The Nix
Nathan Hill
““You think I cheated?” says Laura Pottsdam, college sophomore and habitual, perpetual cheater. “You think I plagiarized that paper? Me?” Samuel nods. He’s trying to look sad about this whole situation, like when a parent has to punish a child. This hurts me more than it hurts you,is the expression he’s trying to produce, even if he does not sincerely feel it. Inside, he secretly likes when he gets to fail a student. It’s like revenge for having to teach them.”
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