Jami Attenberg’s I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home, forthcoming from Ecco on January 11, 2022.

The author of The Devoted writes about the little things writers can do when a project feels impossible.

Thrity Umrigar’s Honor, forthcoming from Algonquin Books on January 11, 2022.

“There was so much shame in this project for me to dispel and bury.” —Mahogany L. Browne, author of I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love

Siri Hustvedt’s Mothers, Fathers, and Others, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster on December 7.

“The moment you walk away from the conversation with a poem, you lose it, and it will never return.” —CAConrad, author of AMANDA PARADISE

“In the mornings—or when I roll over from a dream—there’s only God and me talking to each other.” —Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois

Christopher Gonzalez’s I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat, forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project on December 1, 2021.

“I find it really hard to follow a routine in almost every part of my life.” —Kat Chow, author of Seeing Ghosts

John Edgar Wideman’s Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone, forthcoming from Scribner on November 9, 2021.