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Fifteen years after his dazzling debut, The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach returns to the spotlight with The Brightness, a story of big love, campus protest, female friendship, and the daunting potential of youth.
What it takes to resist the siren song of one’s devices and stay focused at your writing desk.
One writer gets caught in the crosshairs of AI and shares thoughts on how all of us can defend ourselves and our work going forward.
For one nonfiction writer with autism and ADHD, perfectionism threatens to “harden the creative process into something punitive.” A sustainable creative practice means regulating intensity, not trying to outrun it.
Under the leadership of Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, the iconoclastic literary magazine has launched several new editorial and programming initiatives.
Hundreds of digitized audio recordings from decades of literary events at the Unterberg Poetry Center make iconic readings accessible online.
A coffee grinder, the soul of a man who drowned to death, a board game, a house, angels, God, mushrooms, and trees are all characters in Olga Tokarczuk’s third novel, Primeval and Other Times, first published in Polish in 1996 and forthcoming in a new edition, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, in December from Riverhead Books. The narrative chronicles the universe of a fictional village called Primeval through short vignettes of different characters, both human and nonhuman, over the course of three generations during the twentieth century. In “The Time of Misia’s Grinder,” Tokarczuk writes: “Perhaps coffee grinders are the axis of reality, around which everything turns and unwinds, perhaps they are more important for the world than people.” Write a collection of vignettes about diverse characters that collaboratively reveal a microcosm of points of view in a specific time and place. What objects will give voice to the philosophical and existential questions you wish to explore?
