The First Reading James Salter Ever Gave
The following remembrances of James Salter, who died June 19, appear as part of a larger collection in memoriam, at American Short Fiction. James Salter’s First Reading Alan Cheuse It’s hard now to...
View ArticleRemembering the Great Robert Stone
Robert Stone is perhaps best known for his 1975 National Book Award-winning novel Dog Soldiers, a searing account of America’s post-1960s slide into the dark Mansonian paranoia of the early 70s. The...
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Can Poetry Survive in the Wild?
Broadsided Press could be described in a couple of ways: a small press specializing in direct-to-reader distribution; a monthly literary journal dedicated to single-serving works of art and literature;...
View ArticleMaking the Jump From Big House to Small Press
Front Porch Commons is a brand-new site launching today, from the good people at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). To which we say congratulations and happy birthday. The...
View ArticleAn Interview with Fred Moten, Pt. II
Part I of this interview appears here. FITZGERALD: Conceptually, I feel in agreement with you and especially as regards to my experience of texts. But when I listen to the voice of Charlie Patton,...
View ArticleCharles Bukowski’s Rules for Writing
Charles Bukowski’s On Writing comes out from Ecco Books on August 27th. In honor of his birthday, this Sunday, August 16th, we offer here his most important insights on what it takes to be a writer....
View ArticleOn the Intense Power of Literary Friendship
Kathleen Alcott and I have been friends for almost as long as I’ve lived in New York, ever since our friend Nathan’s birthday party, when he introduced us saying “you’re both writers, you should talk...
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The Great Booksellers Fall Preview
Summer beach reads now dispensed with, all evidence of sand and flip-flop summarily destroyed, it is soon time to return to real life (the lateness of Labor Day notwithstanding)—this means reading even...
View ArticleWhen We Were Young and Lost
Annie McGreevy and Claire Vaye Watkins met at the Ohio State University MFA program in 2007. Ahead of the release of Annie’s debut novella, Ciao, Suerte (Nouvella, September 1) and Claire’s second...
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What I Teach: A Back to School Reading List
Last week we asked booksellers across the country what titles they were excited about this fall. Though it pains us to say, five years from now, a lot of books from that list will have been forgotten....
View ArticleHaikus of Grief, Silence in Harlem
Tonya Foster’s A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna) uses haiku to present a piercing portrait of contemporary Harlem. In contrast, the fictions in John Keene’s Counternarratives (New Directions)...
View ArticleIn Which Padgett Powell Employs an Extended Scatological Metaphor
Writer Rebecca Evanhoe studied with Padgett Powell during her MFA program at the University of Florida (which Powell co-directs). Recently, the two reconnected to discuss the best writing as a rare...
View ArticleLost in the Basque Country
Gabriel Urza and Sean Bernard have a few things in common. Both have debut novels out this autumn: Urza’s All That Followed (Holt) and Bernard’s Studies in the Hereafter (Red Hen). Both teach creative...
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Kafka Meets Charlie Brown
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. An opportune time, then, to revisit R. Sikoryak’s “Good ol’ Gregor Brown,” which first appeared in Russ...
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Hiding the Money, But Not the Fun
The following is excerpted from The Heavens: Annual Report, which features photographs by Paulo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti, and an essay by Nicholas Shaxson on the proliferation of tax havens. In...
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Katherine Mansfield, a Graphic Interpretation
The following graphic interpretation of Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly,” by Zanna Goldhawk, appears in issue two of Sixpenny Magazine.
View ArticleA Phone Call From Paul: Neil Gaiman
We are very happy to introduce A Phone Call From Paul, Literary Hub’s weekly podcast, in which the inimitable Paul Holdengraber telephones a friend and sees what they’re up to. In episode one, Paul...
View ArticleEileen Myles in Conversation with Ben Lerner
Eileen Myles has lived in her East Village apartment, where this interview took place, since 1977, and yet, entering her studio, I got the feeling she’d just moved in or was ready to move out—both make...
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A Phone Call From Paul: Neil Gaiman, Part II
In part two of Paul’s conversation with Neil Gaiman, many subjects are covered, of note are: the pleasures of the apiary, the joys of fatherhood, magic as storytelling. To listen to the first part of...
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The Writer’s Shelfie: Porochista Khakpour
While it may still be true that you can’t really judge a book by its cover, we think it’s certainly possible to judge people by the books they read. With that in mind, we’ll be asking our favorite...
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