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The New York Times reports on the controversy surrounding Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s recent essay; novelist Paula Woods writes about her relationship to Juneteenth; Meredith Maran celebrates contemporary women writers invested in sexual liberation; and other stories.
Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Award; Oprah’s Book Club to read The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris; Ginny Hogan finds insights on toxic masculinity in Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School; and other stories.
Season two of Marlon & Jake Read Dead People is coming; Jonathan Lee writes about the renewed popularity of historical fiction; Leanne Shapton talks making interdisciplinary art; and other stories.
“All memoirists are making art out of time, and there isn’t one way.” —Krys Malcolm Belc, the author of The Natural Mother of the Child
The Yeats Society in Sligo, Ireland, appeals for donations; Kristen Arnett discusses exploring queer motherhood in With Teeth; Elizabeth Gollan reconnects with her ancestors’ staple foods; and other stories.
The author of Love and Other Poems offers an antidote to the usual despair and hysteria on Twitter by writing an endless poem about love.
Quntos KunQuest describes writing his debut novel while serving a life sentence; Anne Valente writes about learning “to call things what they are”; Jane Hu reflects on friendship after the pandemic year; and other stories.
Joshua Ferris’s A Calling for Charlie Barnes, forthcoming from Little, Brown on September 28, 2021.
Clare Sestanovich writes about chance encounters; Matthew James Seidel begins reading Toni Morrison’s books in publication order; María José Ferrada discusses writing her first novel for adult readers; and other stories.
Alexandra Huỳnh recalls the moment she was named National Youth Poet Laureate; HarperCollins temporarily rebrands Houghton Mifflin Harcourt titles; Alex DiFrancesco explains their interest in monstrousness; and other stories.
