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Literary nonprofit Slice to close down; Casey Plett reflects on the appeal of writing story collections; Amitava Kumar makes the case for including visual elements in literary books; and other stories.
Jami Attenberg’s I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, forthcoming from Ecco on January 11, 2022.
Longtime literary agent Philip Spitzer has died; Pyae Moe Thet War writes about the many stages of writing a book; Elizabeth Bruenig weighs in on “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?”; and other stories.
Publishers Weekly recaps the Brooklyn Book Festival; the New York Public Library will no longer charge late fees; Jocelyn Nicole Johnson shares her path to writing; and other stories.
Larissa Pham reviews Afterparties by the late Anthony Veasna So; Beth Gilstrap searches for beauty and hope on and off the page; new prize seeks to support diverse independent publishers; and other stories.
“I wanted to articulate and be honest to the emotion of grief.” —Eugene Lim, author of Search History
Merve Emre interviews Jonathan Franzen for Vulture; memoirist and musician Michelle Zauner discusses claiming her Koreanness; Myriam J. A Chancy celebrates fellow Caribbean writers; and other stories.
The author of The Devoted writes about the little things writers can do when a project feels impossible.
A. A. Balaskovits describes the cultural power of the fairy tale; Jean Huang considers citrus as a symbol in literature; Piers Torday calls for richer representation of the animal world; and other stories.
JJ Bola’s The Selfless Act of Breathing, forthcoming from Atria Books on February 8, 2022.
