Publishing is always moving on:
Merritt Tierce on the reality of making money as
a writer. | Marie Claire
“To achieve genuine diversity,
the powerful need to share power
(and profits) with people who are not like them.” Viet Thanh Nguyen on
publishing’s diversity problem. | Library Journal
He would always look at the city with a stranger’s eyes: On Albert Camus’ Paris. | The Paris Review
Celebrate National Translation
Month with new translations from the Hausa language,
a short story
by Daniel Saldaña París (translated by Christina MacSweeney), and much more.
| National Translation Month
Margaret Lazarus Dean on what
draws her to the language of
spaceflight, the pressure to fully observe, and the difference
between writing fiction and nonfiction. | The Ribbon
“I pledge to never be passive,
patriotic, or grateful in the face of American abuse.” Kiese Laymon on his own fraught
relationship with the American flag. | The Fader
I curled up, became a full
moon, and rolled on the floor: An excerpt from Yoko Tawada’s
forthcoming novel, Memoirs of a Polar Bear (translated by Susan Bernofsky).
| Granta
“In a lot of ways, I was writing
in the direction of my
fears.” A profile of Brit Bennett. | Vogue
Imagining the
friendship of Anaïs Nin and Flannery O’Connor, both “sensualists”
and “bad bitches.” | The Hairpin
Adam Fitzgerald on 1990s TV, the grief/desire
cycle, and the sinister banality of the suburbs. | Bookforum
Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine,
Sarah Stillman, and Gene Luen Yang are among this year’s recipients of the MacArthur
Foundation’s ‘Genius’ Grants. | MacArthur Foundation
My very first workshop experience
was as an infiltrator:
Lidia Yuknavitch on her experiences in writing classes. | Tin House
How bad decisions
make good fiction
in the work of Jade Sharma, Elnathan John, and others. | Google Play
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