Park Row Books

Serena Burdick on Her Novel’s Seventeen-Year Journey to Publication

“To survive, or at least to survive sanely, it takes a certain amount of endurance.”

 
By Serena Burdick  November 4, 2022
Anxiety

Alchemizing Those Icky Feelings: Samantha Irby on Turning Anxiety Into Laughter

By Samantha Irby  October 18, 2022
Drinking

Books at the Bar: A Reading List of Fictional Bars, Bartenders, and Bar Flies

By Natalka Burian  July 13, 2022
Nature Writing

Secrets of the Sea: On the Hidden Past of Orford Ness and the Residue of Human Destruction

By Polly Crosby  December 9, 2021
Climate Crisis

The Legacy of Post-Katrina New Orleans’ Political Theater on Today’s Climate Crisis

By Samantha Montano  August 3, 2021
The Hub

Amber Tamblyn is editing an anthology that will feature essays by Jia Tolentino and Samantha Irby.

By Vanessa Willoughby  July 19, 2021
Alcohol

The Science of Happy Hour: On the Irresistible Chemistry of Your Favorite Drinks

By Kate Biberdorf  July 9, 2021
Women's History

The Long Silencing of Women in Science Continues Today

By Olivia Campbell  March 5, 2021
Discovering Old Manuscripts

How a Rare and Ancient Manuscript Moved Me to Write a Novel

By Natalka Burian  October 19, 2020
Artists

A Lineage of Artists: Polly Crosby on Her Famous Illustrator Uncles

By Polly Crosby  September 1, 2020
New Books Network

Serena Burdick on Sisterhood and the Gilded Age in New York

By New Books Network  June 12, 2020
Writing Advice

Why You Should Write About Your Characters at Work

By Jason Allen  August 9, 2019
Beekeeping

How We Can Save the Honeybees

By Meredith May  April 22, 2019

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