·It can be stressful, but it is
definitely good for the
crime writing: An interview with PI/writer Patrick Hoffman. | GQ
·Examining the body, language,
and the language used to describe the female body: On the poetry of Monica
Youn. | Hyperallergic
·The shortlist for
the Man Booker Prize has been announced, including Paul Beatty,
Deborah Levy, and Ottessa Moshfegh. | The Man Booker Prize
·Know your characters, distance
yourself, and ignore tips: Jeanette Winterson, Claire Messud, and other authors
share their best writing advice.
| The Guardian
·Nick Flynn and Roy Scranton discuss
the poetry of war,
choosing not to discriminate between reality and fiction, and attempting to
understand what we cannot forget. | Tin House
·“For headstrong women who know
their own desires, growing up in conventional society sometimes feels like inhabiting a haunted
house.” On the writing (and Ruth Franklin’s new biography) of
Shirley Jackson. | The Atlantic
·On Donald Trump and freshmen
writing: How the “Trumpian goal of winning has infected the
American student essay.” | Guernica
·“There are so many white women speaking honestly
and writing confessionally that just doing it no longer can be
called revolutionary.” On Jennifer Weiner’s recent comments
on the selection for Oprah’s Book Club. | The Huffington Post, Jezebel
·“I have been writing this
story my whole life. Every single novel, this is the story that I
write.” Belinda McKeon interviews Ann Patchett. | Los Angeles Review of Books
·Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman
discuss assembling
fictional people, the gravity of physiology, and emotional logic. | Salon
·“To perform analyses like these
on Nguyen’s poems… is to be left with frayed ends.”
On the poetry of Hoa Nguyen. | The Boston Review
·A rejection like that from a man
like that is enough to keep a young writer
going: Ursula K. Le Guin on her first attempt at a novel. | The Paris Review
·“I know that you cannot judge a
book by its cover as surely as I know that the cover gives some clue to the
story within.” Rumaan Alam attends a
fashion show and reflects on the role clothing plays in self-narrativizing.
| Elle
“For those of us
whose identities—racial, sexual, and cultural—have branded us as others
throughout our lives, her smirks went straight through
like a bullet.” Suki Kim on Lionel Shriver's controversial keynote
address and its aftermath. | The New Republic
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