The Real Obama: An Interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer David J. Garrow By Cody Delistraty Feature The author offers insights into the 44th President of the United States after interviewing over 1,000 people for Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
The Story of Memory: An Interview with Paula Hawkins By Cody Delistraty Feature Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on The Train and Into the Water, reflects on two unreliable things: narrators and memory.
American Media is Still Getting Chinese Food All Wrong By Pam Mandel Highlight Chinese writers can bring a lot more to the table when it comes to writing about Chinese food.
There’s No Way Hannah Can Afford That Apartment By Pam Mandel Highlight Over six seasons, Girls has not been even remotely realistic about the earnings of a freelance writer.
Choosing Mother India By Pam Mandel Highlight “People insist that only an idiot would move from the land of the dollar to the 68-times-weaker rupee.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko: The Siberian Cowboy Poet By Pam Mandel Highlight “It makes sense that a person would come from another culture and do their poems, because everybody at Elko thinks they’re from another culture.”
Literature by the Numbers By Jessica Gross Feature Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.
Why We Still Can’t Quit F. Scott Fitzgerald By Erin Blakemore Commentary With a new “lost” short story published by The New Yorker, the bottle is just about dry.
How a Story Becomes a ‘Hopeful Thing’: George Saunders on His Writing Process By Krista Stevens Highlight At the Guardian, the author recounts how it takes “hundreds of drafts” and “thousands of incremental adjustments” to form a story into a “hopeful thing.”
Screw You, and the Icelandic Pony You Rode In On By Michelle Weber Highlight Novelist Nell Zink, in n+1, takes readers on a rambling but sharp journey through writers and novels of the 20th century in the name of exploring realism, compassion, and justice in fiction.
The Anton Chekhov-George Saunders Humanity Kit: An Introduction By Maria Bustillos Feature A little over three years ago I asked George Saunders whether I could sit in on one of his MFA classes at Syracuse, and, flabbergastingly, he said okay.
Isaac Asimov's Rules for Writing and Revising By Longreads Highlight Consider this before you tear everything up.
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