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In this Late Night With Seth Meyers interview, Percival Everett talks about how Mark Twain, among others, influenced the sense of irony in his writing and how a game of tennis impacted the premise of his novel James (Doubleday, 2024), for which he won the 2024 National Book Award in fiction.
Fools and lovers, emperors and empresses, devils and death, chariots and towers, moons and stars: The cards of a tarot deck are filled with scenes and images of a colorful assortment of characters, arcane symbols, flora and fauna, and celestial ephemera that can spark one’s imagination. In Chelsey Pippin Mizzi’s guidebook Tarot for Creativity: A Guide for Igniting Your Creative Practice (Chronicle Books, 2024), the symbols and archetypes on each of the seventy-eight cards are described in a way to fuel creativity and experimentation. Consider this creative connection to tarot and write a story in which one of your characters stumbles upon an errant tarot card at a crucial moment of indecision. Search online or through a book for a tarot card that resonates with the tone or theme of your narrative. What is depicted on the card and how does your character read into the imagery?
Watch the film trailer for Queer, a film adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s 1985 novel of the same name. Directed by Luca Guadagnino with a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, the film stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville, and Jason Schwartzman.
“Describe your inner vision clearly so that the reader can see exactly what you see.” —Juhea Kim, author of City of Night Birds
“Artificial intelligence is no substitute for the real thing,” says Percival Everett in his acceptance speech for the 2024 National Book Award in fiction, which he won for his novel James (Doubleday, 2024).
In this event from the 2024 Atlantic Festival on the topic of books bans in the United States and the world, Atlantic staff writer Gal Beckerman moderates a discussion with Cindy Hohl, president of the American Library Association, and Victoria Scott-Miller, owner of Liberation Station Bookstore, as well as a discussion with Iranian American journalist and activist Masih Alinejad and author and activist Rania Mamoun.
Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror is an animated television miniseries adaptation of the manga horror series created by manga author and artist Junji Ito. The story takes place in the fictional Japanese town of Kurouzo, which is overtaken by a mysterious, and ultimately, deadly obsession with spirals. Spirals begin appearing everywhere: in a stirred-up bath and bowl of soup, in the pattern on a fish cake, in the smoke from a crematorium, in a potter’s wheel, in a head of hair, and the whirl of a snail’s shell. Taking a page from Ito’s unusual premise of a simple shape transforming into a malignant force, write a short story in which an unexpected terror arises from a seemingly innocuous object or image. How does an everyday item become imbued with horrific capabilities to create an atmosphere of foreboding?
In this event presented by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Kundiman, writers Hannah Bae, Jen Lue, Gina Chung, and Rajat Singh read from their work and participate in a conversation moderated by Thuy Phan, regional cochair of Kundiman Northeast.
The author of Amphibian (Ig Publishing, October 2024) considers what films can teach us about writing adolescent characters.
In this video, Samantha Harvey accepts the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel Orbital (Jonathan Cape, 2023), which snapshots one day in the lives of six astronauts traveling through space. “What we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves, and what we do to life on Earth, human and otherwise, we do to ourselves,” says Harvey in her speech.
