The indignity and discomfort of being accused of theft: a short story about a long shift at the coffee shop everyone loves to hate.
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Arundhati Roy Doesn’t Care What You Think
While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Literature by the Numbers
Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.
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Between the Wolf in the Tall Grass and the Wolf in the Tall Story “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the unconscious is laboring under a moral compulsion to educate us.” —Cormac McCarthy, “The Kekulé Problem,” Nautilus, April 20, 2017 I. The Smartest Person in the Room I often say that one of the […]
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
Screw You, and the Icelandic Pony You Rode In On
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.
Posted inBooks, History, Story
Nell Battle Lewis, Storyteller for Jim Crow
How an otherwise high-minded social reformer preserved and perpetuated her white supremacist worldview.
Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
On Not Being Able to Read
In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore. That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.
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Dorothy Allison on Why Working-Class Literature Is the Strongest
An interview with Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard out of Carolina, on growing up poor, finding her voice, the limitations of fiction, overcoming the stigma of poverty, and being a lesbian in Donald Trump’s America.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Memoirist’s Dilemma
Fourteen years after her memoir about about her father’s death was released, novelist Aminatta Forna still deals with after-effects, both good and bad.
Posted inBooks, Story
Angrily Experiencing the Best Days of Our Lives
Ukrainian author and poet Serhiy Zhadan writes about resisting corruption and coping with loss in a society that is spiraling senselessly into conflict.
