“Her infidelity was taking other authors’ books into bed with her,” says Nan and Gay Talese’s daughter, Pamela.
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1999 Was The Last Time Everything Was Fine
A personal essay nostalgically looking back at 1999, a buoyant time for the economy and publishing–before the bursting of the dot com bubble, a stock market crash, and the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessett Kennedy, and her sister.
Maybe We’re the Circle
Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.
A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers
How during a brutal, 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers failed the women soldiers who sacrificed everything to fight for a sovereign state for the Tamil minority.
The ‘Smashing Things Together’ Approach to Editorial Illustration
Art Director Kjell Reigstad’s insights on editorial illustration.
Choire Sicha’s New Role: Editor of The New York Times Styles Section
People love him. And that’s what makes him a great editor.
In Bed-Stuy, the Ghost of Robert Moses is Alive and Well
Gentrification is about displacement — but also about marketing and invisibility.
Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
The Writers’ Roundtable: Fiction vs. Nonfiction
A conversation between writers Eva Holland, Benjamin Percy, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Mary H.K. Choi, and Adam Sternbergh about writing on both sides of the fiction-nonfiction divide.
Following John McPhee’s Path to ‘Oranges’
Fifty years after he published Oranges, one writer traces McPhee’s story to Florida to assess the state of American citrus.
