Exhausted, Frustrated, Probably Depressed
The housewife is to the novelist what the still life is to the painter. For the Slate Book Review, Laura Miller writes a piece exploring the history and resurgence of a…
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Kyle Williams
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Kyle Williams is a student at Brooklyn College, studying creative writing and literature. You can find more from him on Tumblr at kaywhyelleee.tumblr.com, but don't feel like you have to.
What If I Have No Person?
The Guardian’s Hermione Hoby interviews Joyce Carol Oates about her upcoming novel, The Man Without a Shadow, also touching on everything from her impossible back catalog to her Twitter we all…
President Obama, Literary Critic
At the New York Review of Books, Edward Mendelson shares with us part of a letter written by a young man who would eventually become President Obama, a small piece of…
The Middle East in Writing
Increasingly, a writer needs an access point, a micro-focus, a close-up lens—even a gimmick: one small story through which larger historical truths can be elucidated anew. For the Los Angeles…
Old Books for Cold Weather
Lit Hub has been sharing excerpts of classic favorites to help weather the brutal cold—or, well, the mild cold, as is the case here in New York. Cozy up with the…
Kind, and Very Funny
For TriQuarterly, Cara Suglich interviews George Saunders, nationally-recognized literary great and funny person. Saunders shares his methods, his insights on what makes stories work, and some fantastic jokes.
The Title Contains a Question
Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people. The Guardian’s Kate Kellaway interviews Claudia Rankine on the writing of Citizen, some of her other work, and…
Visiting Kafka
Over at the New York Times, David Farley writes about Prague and its connections to Kafka, from the 36-foot high Kafka head made of forty-two rotating chrome plates to the various buildings…
Infinite Cover Redesigns
The Millions shows us the new fan-designed cover for the 20th anniversary edition of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, as well as a short and sweet interview with Wallace’s editor…
Opened and Raw
The violence enters together with the beauty. Over at Electric Literature, Claire Schwartz writes about the power of recitation from memory, and about entering the poetry of Ai through memorization…
Yes, There Were Drinks
Lit Hub sat down with the founders of Emily Books, Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, to talk about their decision to start their new imprint, from drinks at Palomas to their first book,…
Our Literary Footpaths
Over at The Toast, Rebecca Turkewitz writes about the intersections between literary geography and the real, from Joyce’s Dublin and Tolkien’s Middle Europe to Faulkner’s Mississippi and Munro’s Ontario—how we…