Making It Through: A Conversation with Kelly J. Baker
Kelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.
...moreKelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.
...moreAvni Doshi discusses her debut novel, BURNT SUGAR.
...moreAlex Poppe discusses her new novel, MOXIE.
...moreConsistent with the author’s headlong personality, the narrative of Rough Magic wastes little time.
...moreLaura Lippman discusses her newest novel, LADY IN THE LAKE.
...moreAngela Mitchell discusses her debut collection, UNNATURAL HABITATS & OTHER STORIES.
...moreMalinda McCollum discusses her debut story collection, THE SURPRISING PLACE.
...moreJulie Buntin discusses her debut novel, Marlena, the writers and books that influenced it, tackling addiction with compassion, and the magic of teenage girls.
...moreKarolina Waclawiak discusses her latest book, The Invaders, the dark side of human nature, and what it really means to be a “beach read”.
...moreThis was my first experience of being fictionalized. I still recall the yellow-white flash of queasiness, the mortification: a sense of powerlessness and an utter lack of recourse. What if a writer friend—or, worse, relative—of yours turned you into one of his characters, maybe in an unflattering way? Over at the Paris Review, Michelle Huneven […]
...moreCritics who fault a character’s unlikability cannot necessarily be faulted. They are merely expressing a wider cultural malaise with all things unpleasant, all things that dare to breach the norm of social acceptability. In a cheekily titled BuzzFeed Books essay, “Not Here to Make Friends,” our essays editor Roxane Gay talks about the knotty issue of […]
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