His new novel is about mass incarceration, indoor football, and parallel universes. De La Pava says that when “you dig deep, you start seeing the way everything is connected.”
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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Profiles & Interviews
Reporting on Bolivia’s Coca Rebirth: An Interview with Jessica Camille Aguirre
After a profound shift in thinking about an unfairly stigmatized plant, Bolivia is ready to spread the gospel of coca.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
Sometimes the Story Finds You: An Interview With Rachel Monroe
The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.
Posted inProfiles & Interviews, Story
‘I Try Not to Have a Schedule’: Talking Writing with William Vollmann
Renowned for the size of his books as the magnitude of his subjects, the author is ready to take on waste and climate change.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove
An interview with Brantley Hargrove, the author of a new biography of the storm chaser Tim Samaras, who was killed by the biggest tornado ever recorded. To understand the life of a chaser, Hargrove had to become one himself.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Story, Uncategorized
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove
“If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
Posted inBooks, Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Uncategorized
Chasing the Man Who Caught the Storm: An Interview With Brantley Hargrove
“If you’ve had the luck of actually seeing a tornado, man, that’s like nicotine. It gets under your skin.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean
Cultural critic Michelle Dean discusses her new book Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion. Topics covered range from emotionally fraught book reviews of Susan Sontag to male blowback against the famous first line of Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer to how horrified Elizabeth Hardwick was by her friend Adrienne […]
Posted inArts & Culture, Discussions, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
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.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Invisible Lives of Young Women With Chronic Illnesses
Michele Lent Hirsch on the challenges young women with serious health issues face while navigating their relationships, careers, and own sense of who they are.