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Remembering Publisher Peter Mayer
Peter Mayer who died at age 82 on May 11 was a dear friend, a mentor and an inspiration—truly one of the greatest publishers of our time. He was the first—and maybe the last and only—publisher who...
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Louise Penny on Surviving Childhood Fears with Charlotte’s Web
Will Schwalbe: Hi, I’m Will Schwalbe, and this is But That’s Another Story. My oldest goddaughter Ming read so much when she was a child that her mother had to beg her to stop reading long enough to...
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How to Survive One of the World’s Biggest Literary Festivals
The mighty Hay Festival of Literature and Arts is turning 30 this year, and despite its incredible success and steady growth, it retains all the original charm of the early days in a small, Welsh...
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Sex, Drugs, Rock n’ Roll, and Mystical Poets
“God gave rock n’ roll to you, put it in the soul of everyone.” –Kiss, singing in the sequel to Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. HOW TO (SAY) FUCK AND MEAN IT Beth...
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10 Small Press Books to Read this Summer
As the nation’s only nonprofit distributor, Small Press Distribution is dedicated to getting small press literature to the people who want to read it. As such, we’re grateful to our main...
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What We Loved This Week
This past weekend, I joined some friends to watch the New York City Football Club beat the Colorado Rapids at soccer on a heavily misting afternoon. I did not acquire the bucket full of chicken...
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Writing About Mass Incarceration Across Genres
Poet and memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts and novelist Zachary Lazar join V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell for the first of two special episodes on the effects of mass incarceration on American...
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What We Loved This Week
I spent some time this week carefully re-reading Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior, a book that is (somehow!) turning 30 this weekend. If you’re so inclined, you will be able to read my in-depth thoughts...
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Babies, The Big Sleep, Cult Writers, and More: Our Favorite Stories of May
From essays to interviews, excerpts and reading lists, we publish around 150 features a month. And though we’re proud of each week’s offerings, we do have our personal favorites. Below are some of our...
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Brittney Cooper on Her Growing Relationship to God and Church
Will Schwalbe talks to professor, writer, and cultural commentator Brittney Cooper on grappling with questions on religion and learning to manage uncertainty. Will Schwalbe: Hi, I’m Will Schwalbe, and...
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16 Books You Should Read This June
Caroline Kepnes, Providence (Lenny) In her first standalone, Kepnes combines the suspense and careful plotting of crime fiction with elements of horror. The novel traces the early friendship of Jon...
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What We Loved This Week
I began reading Rachel Cusk’s Kudos early this week—and then quickly began to ignore everything else so that I might continue reading it. This may seem fairly odd for a book with no plot (or at least...
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Joseph O’Neill Finds the Act of Writing… Nauseating?
Joseph O’Neill’s latest book, Good Trouble, is available now from Pantheon. How do you tackle writers block? Some writers are highly, almost compulsively industrious. They feel uneasy, guilty, even...
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting…Your First Book
As writers we tend to spend a lot of time . . . writing, but also hoping that doing so persistently will eventually mean that our work finds readers. When it comes to first books, we imagine...
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Writing About Mass Incarceration Across Genres, Part II
Writers Tayari Jones and DaMaris B. Hill talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell in the second of two special episodes on the effects of mass incarceration on American communities and...
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What We Loved This Week
Finally, in danger of actually collapsing under the combined weight of other people’s recommendations, I started reading Javier Marías’s A Heart So White this week. It is brilliant, if not exactly...
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
In my Mojave culture, many of our songs are maps, but not in the sense of an American map. Mojave song-maps do not draw borders or boundaries, do not say this is knowable, or defined, or mine. Instead...
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What We Loved This Week
This summer I’m teaching an undergraduate nonfiction class in Paris for NYU, so I’ve been brushing up on my syllabus, including Valeria Luiselli’s Tell Me How It Ends, ever more prescient by the hour,...
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Finding Power in Pain: Jessie Chaffee and Danielle Lazarin in Conversation
The following is an edited transcript of a conversation between Danielle Lazarin, author of Back Talk: Stories, and Jessie Chaffee, author of Florence in Ecstasy, that occurred at Word Up Community...
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On Apocalyptic Poetry
In 2017, we (Claire Marie Stancek and Brandon Brown) corresponded with each other on the occasion of two new books: Stancek’s debut Mouths (Noemi) and Brown’s slim volume of poems, The Good Life (Big...
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