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‘The Ways of Fiction Are Devious Indeed’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 11, 2022October 19, 2022

Sands Hall, a playwright and daughter of author Oakley Hall, digs into the work of Wallace Stegner — specifically his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Angle of Repose, which is based on the life of Mary Hallock Foote. “[W]e often fold in the real with the invented,” writes Hall, but when does inspiration become plagiarism? Yet in […]

Posted inCommentary, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Highlight, Quotes

When Time Costs Too Much

by Carolyn Wells March 11, 2020October 20, 2022

If you are the family breadwinner, how do you calculate the value of time with your children?

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Story

‘I’m a Big Fan of Writing To Find Out What You Don’t Know.’

by Adam Morgan November 8, 2019January 13, 2023

Mark Haber discusses “Reinhardt’s Garden” and its protagonist’s quest for a true understanding of melancholy: “not a feeling but a mood, not a color but a shade, not depression but not happiness either…”

Posted inStory

‘I Was Interested in the People Who Are Stuck With These Memories.’

by Victoria Namkung October 17, 2019January 20, 2023

Steph Cha discusses her new novel “Your House Will Pay,” the LA Riots, the Korean American Angeleno community, her 3,600 Yelp reviews, and pushing back against gatekeepers in publishing.

Posted inStory

‘Writing This Book Was a Weird Séance ’: An Interview With Deborah Levy

by Tobias Carroll October 15, 2019January 20, 2023

“If you have the depth, the surface can be as light as it’s possible to make it…I don’t mind that ‘Swimming Home’ is sometimes described as a ‘beach read’ — actually that’s a triumph.”

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story

Time To Kill the Rabbit?

by Lily Meyer June 13, 2019October 19, 2022

In two new novels, the bunnies are anything but cute. (Unless … you use magic to turn one of them into a pre-TB Keats, or a talky Tim Riggins.)

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Kristen Arnett on Taxidermy, Memory, and “Mostly Dead Things”

by Tobias Carroll June 5, 2019October 19, 2022

“What’s considered high art? What’s lowbrow? What are those things? That’s something that, as a person who like, lives at 7-Eleven, I’m extremely interested in.”

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Science & Nature, Story

High Expectations: LSD, T.C. Boyle’s Women, and Me

by Christine Ro May 10, 2019October 19, 2022

“Outside Looking In” dramatizes the discovery of LSD and the cult of personality surrounding Timothy Leary. Our reviewer drops acid and thinks about how, for women, it can be safer to be a downer.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘The Home Is a Place as Wild as Any in the World.’

by Alex Madison May 8, 2019October 19, 2022

Chia-Chia Lin talks about the wildness of domestic spaces and writing her novel “The Unpassing” through the early months of motherhood.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women

Game of Crones

by Laura Lippman May 6, 2019October 19, 2022

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

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