The Glass Filter: A Profile of Larry Fagin
For over four decades poet Larry Fagin has delivered no-nonsense writing advice during private classes held in a setting that is decidedly unacademic: his own New York City apartment.
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First Fiction 2012
For our twelfth annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction, we asked five established authors—Charles Baxter, Attica Locke, Christine Schutt, Peter Ho Davies, and Sam Lipsyte—to introduce this year’s group of talented debut authors: Natalie Bakopoulos, Yvvette Edwards, Karolina Waclawiak, Anna Keesey, and Dylan Hicks.
Me, You, and Charles Yu: A Profile of Charles Yu
The search for the true identity of the author behind three of the most unusual books of fiction published in the past five years, including the new collection Sorry Please Thank You, just took a turn.
Motion and Light: An Interview With David St. John
In his new poetry collection, The Auroras, David St. John illuminates the sensibility of the mind at work.
The Necessary Distance: A Profile of Nell Freudenberger
Ten years after her first published story made her an easy target for envious writers, Nell Freudenberger has come into her own with a second novel, The Newlyweds, out this month from Knopf.
When Patience Pays Off: A Profile of Ben Fountain
What Ben Fountain’s literary output lacks in quantity it more than makes up for in quality, as the fifty-three-year-old author’s masterly debut novel, published in May 2012 by Ecco, makes abundantly clear.
The Beauty of a Brutal Honesty: A Profile of Cheryl Strayed
In her memoir, Wild, published in March 2012, author Cheryl Strayed reveals all she lost following the death of her mother, and takes readers along on her three-month hike through the wilderness to find it again.
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The Light at Dusk: A Profile of Joan Didion
Having chronicled her husband’s sudden death in The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion returns to the subject of loss in a new memoir, Blue Nights, about the subsequent passing of her daughter.
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The Perfume of Experience: A Profile of André Aciman
André Aciman isn’t as obsessed with memory as his writings on the mysterious passage of time may indicate. He just doesn’t know how to be in the present.
Living Room: A Profile of Sam Savage
Sam Savage wrote for decades and eventually gave up completely before his debut novel was published when he was sixty-five. Now he’s an international best-selling author with a third novel, Glass, published by Coffee House Press, and one simple message for all of us: Art can save you.
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