Clik here to view.
15 Books You Should Read This May
Rumaan Alam, That Kind of Mother (Ecco) If you want something smart, relevant, and compassionate, Rumaan Alam’s THAT KIND OF MOTHER is that kind of book, a pitch-perfect take on upperclass motherhood...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week
It was a stellar week for poetry reviews, with both Tracy K. Smith and Kevin Young receiving rave write-ups from the New York Times for their new much-anticipated new collections. Pulitzer Prize-winner...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fate and Fortune: What Are We Responsible For?
Was this episode our destiny? In episode 16, Jess Row and Meghan O’Rourke talk fate and fortune with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell. Jess Row speaks first about race and fate, his novel Your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Khaled Hosseini on How Art Makes Us Feel Less Alone
__________________________________ Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process, edited by Joe Fassler. Used with permission of Penguin Books. Copyright © 2018 Khaled...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What We Loved This Week
Last weekend, I went to Sakura Matsuri, the cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It was . . . packed! I heard some music and saw some pretty blossoms and said “excuse me” many, many...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Australian short story writer Carys Davies’ “haunting and beautifully crafted” debut novel, West—the tale of a widowed Pennsylvania mule breeder who, upon hearing that ancient mammoth bones have been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jeff Hobbs on Telling the Story of Your Murdered Friend
Will Schwalbe: Hi, I’m Will Schwalbe and this is But That’s Another Story. If you invite me over to your house, I have to warn you: I’m a book snoop. You will never find me looking in your medicine...
View ArticleClik here to view.
9 Unexpected Mother’s Day Gifts
Our friends at Brazos Bookstore in Houston will be valiantly handselling the following books this week, ahead of Mother’s Day. These titles are ideally read by mothers, mothers-to-be, friends of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rumaan Alam: “Writer’s Block is a Fiction”
Rumaan Alam’s latest book, That Kind of Mother, is available now from Ecco. Which non-literary piece of culture—film, tv show, painting, song—could you not imagine your life without? I need to see...
View ArticleClik here to view.
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
The major literary event of the season so far has been the publication of Zora Neale Hurston Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo.” Hanif Abdurraqib, the author of They Can’t Kill Us Until...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rebecca Solnit on Skipping High School and California Culture
In this episode of A Phone Call from Paul, Paul Holdengraber speaks with Rebecca Solnit about how subtly cultural shifts happen, the value of preaching to the choir, and Solnit’s early life in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What We Loved This Week
Even though I only read a little bit of Beckett in graduate school, my husband wrote a chapter of his dissertation on him, so it’s basically like I did too (right?). Which might explain why this very...
View ArticleClik here to view.
7 Writers Share Their Favorite William Trevor Story
In honor of the publication of William Trevor’s new, posthumous collection, Last Stories (Viking), we asked seven writers about their favorite story. Read a story from the collection here. One of his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Poets Respond to the Anniversary of Nakba
WE ALREADY KNOW THIS Tariq Luthun There is more to us than What was taken from us. A place to call home. Land of olive trees, and their branches. Palestine. There. I’ve said it. I want to be sure that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Artists Respond to the Anniversary of the Nakba
Gaza Leads Us Home by Leila Abdelrazaq Untitled by Marguerite Dabaie
View ArticleClik here to view.
I Forgot, Like You, To Die: 12 Palestinian Writers Respond to the Ongoing Nakba
Yesterday, the global Palestinian community marked the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophic destruction of the Palestinian homeland and dispossession of over 750,000 Palestinians from their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Announcing the 2018 O. Henry Prize Stories
We are very happy to announce the O. Henry Prize Stories for 2018, edited by Laura Furman, which will appear in an eponymous anthology this September, from Anchor. Lauren Alwan “An Amount of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Celebrating the Art of the Book Cover
The following is drawn from a conversation that occurred at the opening night of Penguin Random House’s Be My Cover Exhibit, which features 100 of the best of their book covers published worldwide...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Return of Socialism in America?
In recent years, socialism has been on the rise—or was it ever really gone? In episode 17, V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell talk to Dana Goldstein of The New York Times about what it’s like to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What We Loved This Week
This was the week I became obsessed with BoJack Horseman, which I have previously been hesitant to approach, because I usually find cartoons for adults to be sort of hit or miss. Consider this my...
View Article